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Timely and well-researched book that falls short
I have three complaints with this book: 1) It has the same flaw as other PhD dissertations that are turned into mass-market books, which might be a reason it was publishedd by Harvard University Press? It reads like a very long term paper, not the investigative story readers might have expected. For example, the book length without the index is 347 pages, but fully 73 pages are end notes. That leaves a thinnish volume of 274 pages. As is the case with dissertations, this volume is insufficiently discussive. Dr. Rosenwald reviews the history of conservative talk radio from 1987 through 2016. The inductive conclusion is that talk radio took over a political party that took over the United States. I agree with Rosenwald's thesis. But... 2) Broader contexts are missing. Rosenwald states he works at the intersection between history, political science, media studies, and communications. By communications, does he mean journalism, communications theory, or business communications? The more interesting and needed nexus would be between history, political science, media studies, and sociology. This book tries but does not fully answer the why's -- why did talk radio become racist over time? ...why did it become a conduit for conspiracy theories? ...why are Americans who embrace the country's sacred founding values so willing to follow Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Bannon and others down a path of unAmerican "my way or the highway" and hatred? The answer lies in sociology. This book would have been so much better if the author had researched beyond the chronology of who said what when and how that affected station revenues and polls to what was going on in the heartland during those years to explain why talk radio found such fertile soil. And, finally, 3) The book has some rookie errors that better editing would have fixed -- terms that aren't explained on first mention, excessive use of pronouns beyond the antecedent, and using only last names of hosts or politicians first referenced several chapters before. In short, I was glad to read this book, though it fell short on outside opinions answering how talk radio took root in families and, unchallenged, became the lingua franca of the alt right.
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Timely and well-researched book that falls short
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020
I have three complaints with this book: 1) It has the same flaw as other PhD dissertations that are turned into mass-market books, which might be a reason it was publishedd by Harvard University Press? It reads like a very long term paper, not the investigative story readers might have expected. For example, the book length without the index is 347 pages, but fully 73 pages are end notes. That leaves a thinnish volume of 274 pages. As is the case with dissertations, this volume is insufficiently discussive. Dr. Rosenwald reviews the history of conservative talk radio from 1987 through 2016. The inductive conclusion is that talk radio took over a political party that took over the United States. I agree with Rosenwald's thesis. But... 2) Broader contexts are missing. Rosenwald states he works at the intersection between history, political science, media studies, and communications. By communications, does he mean journalism, communications theory, or business communications? The more interesting and needed nexus would be between history, political science, media studies, and sociology. This book tries but does not fully answer the why's -- why did talk radio become racist over time? ...why did it become a conduit for conspiracy theories? ...why are Americans who embrace the country's sacred founding values so willing to follow Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Bannon and others down a path of unAmerican "my way or the highway" and hatred? The answer lies in sociology. This book would have been so much better if the author had researched beyond the chronology of who said what when and how that affected station revenues and polls to what was going on in the heartland during those years to explain why talk radio found such fertile soil. And, finally, 3) The book has some rookie errors that better editing would have fixed -- terms that aren't explained on first mention, excessive use of pronouns beyond the antecedent, and using only last names of hosts or politicians first referenced several chapters before. In short, I was glad to read this book, though it fell short on outside opinions answering how talk radio took root in families and, unchallenged, became the lingua franca of the alt right.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020
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