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		<title>Long Live the King?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though some advertisers and some radio stations have dumped shock jock  Rush Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown law student a &#8220;slut&#8221; and a &#8220;prostitute,&#8221; his boss Robert Pittman, the CEO of Clear Channel, the radio company that distributes Limbaugh&#8217;s show, says he&#8217;s &#8220;delighted&#8221; to have Limbaugh, whom he called the &#8220;king&#8221; of radio, still in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2012/03/long-live-the-king/</link>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh: Taking shock one step too far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening Post on Al Jazeera is one of my favorite media programs in the world. This week LP and its energetic host Richard Gizbert look at “the Republican media machine” and how the Limbaugh controversy could impact the coming presidential election. I’m pleased to be included as a commentator once again, so please check it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-taking-shock-one-step-too-far/</link>
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		<title>Hate Speech and Hateful Acts in Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is our right and our duty to criticize the people who have put the fate of our country in peril,&#8221; Rush Limbaugh said this week on his syndicated radio show. Although our country&#8217;s leading shock jock spoke in the aftermath of the massacre that left a federal judge and five others dead and Congresswomen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2011/01/hate-speech-and-hateful-acts-in-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Smerconish&#8217;s &#8220;Shocking&#8221; Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprise! This just in &#8212; there&#8217;s &#8220;a push toward polarization&#8221; on cable TV and talk radio. How do I know? Michael Smerconish told me so, in the Washington Post. Smerconish is one of the many nationally syndicated radio hosts (he&#8217;s also a columnist and MSNBC contributor) profiled in my recent book Shock Jocks. Now he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/06/smerconishs-shocking-discovery/</link>
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		<title>Talk Radio &amp; &#8220;The Immigration Meme&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who Knew? Atlantic editor Michael Kinsley listens &#8220;to a lot of talk radio,&#8221; where, he says, &#8220;you can often hear an idea or talking point spreading out among conservatives like a meme, or a weed&#8230;&#8221; Recently, says Kinsley, &#8220;the theme was that anyone who criticizes Arizona&#8217;s new get-tough-on-illegal-immigration law is a hypocrite, because Mexico&#8217;s immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/05/talk-radio-the-immigration-meme/</link>
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		<title>The Limbaugh Victory?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zev Chafets, author of the forthcoming &#8220;Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One,&#8221; wrote a recent OpEd for the New York Times wherein he posited that, &#8220;Republican success in 2010 can be boiled down to two words: Rush Limbaugh.&#8221; There&#8217;s a few large assumptions buried in that sentence, of course, starting with the idea that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/05/the-limbaugh-victory/</link>
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		<title>Noam Chomsky Listens to Talk Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky tells ex-New York Times reporter Chris Hedges he has &#8220;never seen anything like this.&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;This,&#8221; says the man Hedges believes is &#8220;America&#8217;s greatest intellectual,&#8221; is the frightening mood of the country &#8212; &#8220;the level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions,&#8221; and the &#8220;self-destructive fantasies&#8221; that have Chomsky warning &#8220;that we have little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/04/noam-chomsky-listens-to-talk-radio/</link>
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		<title>Russia Today &amp; America&#8217;s Shock Jocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of sitting down for an interview with Russia Today journalist Anastasia Churkina to discuss a wide range of media issues. Inevitably, the subject of shock jocks and their targeting of vulnerable members of American society came up and&#8230;well, see for yourself!]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/04/russia-today-americas-shock-jocks/</link>
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		<title>Second Mistrial for Hal Turner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet shock jock and F.B.I. confidential informant Hal Turner beat the rap again when his second federal &#8220;Death-Threat Trial,&#8221; ended in yet another mistrial. Turner, charged with threatening the life of three federal judges who issued rulings supporting gun control, claims federal agents encouraged his seemingly dangerous rants over the years, and told him to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/03/second-mistrial-for-hal-turner/</link>
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		<title>Hal Turner Hate Speech: The Feds Made Me Do It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testifying at his federal &#8220;Death-Threat Trial,&#8221; Internet shock jock and FBI confidential informant Hal Turner said federal agents &#8212; while asking his help in identifying a white supremacist killer &#8212; told him to &#8220;ratchet up the rhetoric.&#8221; Turner, on trial for threatening the life of three federal judges who issued rulings supporting gun control, claims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shockjocks.org/2010/03/hal-turner-hate-speech-the-feds-made-me-do-it/</link>
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