In 1984, the same year Limbaugh got his start out West, 50-year-old Allen Berg was murdered in his driveway. He was killed by members of a newly formed white supremacist group called The Order. And remember that caller we heard earlier, the one who Allen Berg called a Nazi by his own admission? That caller was David Lane.
If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good old-fashioned AM and FM radio — you may have noticed something. Right wing radio talk is everywhere.
But the airwaves weren't always so dominated by such a narrow range of voices. Reporter and friend of the show Katie Thornton has the story of how talk radio has evolved (and perhaps devolved at times) over the past century, and what all of it means for the airwaves today.
The Divided Dial
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