>The importance of talk radio in the US has not been properly
>appreciated. Not because it is so often correct, but because it is a
>contrary voice... and a loud one that doesn't go away.

Exactly correct.

By the way (not that it matters) you may be surprised to hear that in 
the UK presently the *print* media, populist papers, are the slightly 
equivalent Popular Voice contra the totally insane, just as you point 
out statist-leftist (largely BBC) TV-radio media.

Hence, the BBC headline will be "Troubled Youth Murders Bystander - 
How Can We Share His Pain More, And, What Did Society Do Wrong?" 
("special report follow-up: the Lesbian perspective")

Whereas the Populist Newspapers will be along the lines: "Knife 
Murder Punk - 42 Suggestions For How Vigilante Mobs Could Beat Him To 
Death With Iron Bars" etc etc.

It's quite funny really.  (One of their favorite adjectives is CAGED, 
meaning 'jailed'.  As in "Rapist Scum CAGED For 20 Years" - Heh!)

And of course there's Jeremy Clarkson as the one and only 
counterweight in the audio-video media.

It should be said that BBC Radio 4 (a radio station) is incredibly 
high quality: they play astonishingly good basically documentaries on 
every possible subject, from morning to night.  {Interrupted twice a 
day by "The Archers" which is a ridiculous radio soap opera that is 
the longest-playing whatever.}  I listen to R4 whenever I'm cruising 
in a car.  However, it is wildly, astonishingly left-wing and 
statist, so you just have to turn off every other documentary that 
has any sort of political content at all, and enjoy the other 
non-political shows.

(This sort of thing causes a real dilemma, along the lines "Should 
you enjoy buildings built by Hitler" - I don't know the answer.)

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