top five talk shows
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now - list my top five favorite radio news and talk shows.
- Jim Bohannon. No lame shouting; Jim always has intelligent guests and thoughtful conversation with them.
- Deborah Rowe, of WLS-AM Chicago. I started listening to her show when I lived in West Lafayette, IN. She’s a conservative African-American woman — always level-headed, even in the face of moonbattery, and takes calls at an amazing rate.
- O’Reilly. The Radio Factor is much better than the FOX News TV show, which has really declined. By the way, I heard Neal Boortz give the Radio Factor four months to live on his radio show.
- ESPN Gamenight. A great mix of funny and informative.
- NPR’s All Things Considered. There, I said it. Yes, there’s liberal bias. It’s still one of the most eclectic newscasts out there — you’ll get a lot of stories you won’t get anywhere else.
02.03.2005 @ 21:32
I agree with your choice of “All Things Considered”. It’s now my new commuter program.
02.04.2005 @ 16:16
It’s got stories you don’t find anywhere else, and I’d say it’s got fair political coverage about 70% of the time (and by “fair” I mean “doesn’t cover liberal Democrats and terrorist-sympathizing leftist aesthetes favorably and sympathetically and paints conservatives and Republicans as evil, stupid, Bible-thumping war-mongers”). The KU studio people put me to sleep though, which is dangerous at 06:45 during Morning Edition.
And O’Reilly’s really taken a dive in my book since the sex thing. The TV show has become too predictable. The radio show is still okay though.