The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.

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    Ronald Reagan started the fight to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

    Back in the Cronkite Era, if a station ran an editorial it had to provide equal time for opposing views.

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      Rush Limbaugh and his gross career owes its entire existence to that. He is someone who believes that drug dealers and smugglers need to be shot without trial… and he himself was a drug dealer when he was hard for cash.

      Tells you a good deal of what kind of person we’re dealing with here.