From a PBS News report this week, on Conservative talk shows dominating radio:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec03/righttalkradio_10-13.html

quote:


TERENCE SMITH: Sean Hannity is second only to Limbaugh as a talk radio host. His weekly audience is more than 10 million people. He's on nearly 400 stations, and is syndicated by ABC Radio. Hannity is a great admirer of Limbaugh.

But he says there's also another big reason for talk radio's right wing bent.

SEAN HANNITY: Most of the major newspapers in this country slant solidly to the left. I'd argue the three major news organizations -- ABC, NBC, and CBS -- slant solidly to the left. You have two cable channels that slant solidly to the left. I think it's fairly obvious.

Talk radio's rise is in part to the mainstream media being solidly to the left.
This is what I've thought for many years. That conservative pundits like Rush Limbaugh are a counter-weight to an overwhelmingly liberal-dominated mainstream media, and liberal propaganda.

People hunger to go somewhere that they can get the truth, instead of a liberal spin version of the truth.