How is talk radio doing when so many young people don’t listen to broadcast radio? How can anyone stand listening to NPR? These questions and some free-speech concerns came up in a chat with Derek Hunter, talk-radio host on WMAL-FM in Washington, DC and the author of Outrage Incorporated: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.
MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider joined me in talking to Derek. Our recent poll question asking the public about the ideological beliefs of Charlie Kirk’s assassin underlined how much young people aren’t paying attention to conservative media or talk radio. Most don’t listen to old-fashioned broadcast radio. We found 33 percent of students thought Charlie Kirk’s killer was conservative, and only four percent accurately placed him on the left. Maybe someone could get confused by listening to Jimmy Kimmel or NPR.
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