In another gaseous fugue of self-righteous gloatation, Bill O'Reilly smirked and applauded Monday night as he reported that the S eattle Post Intelligencer would be folding any day, now. The employees, he said, are trying to solicit donations to keep the website up. Barely able to pretend to con...

We love it when one of the homeys gets some national attention, (or in this case, ridicule). We've heard from a bunch of readers: Stephanie Miller ((KPTK m-f, 6-9a) mocked Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) on-air Monday; her sidekick, Jim Ward did a hilarious impression of the The King of Seattle Ta...

 How many dittoheads are there, really? With Rush Limbaugh leading conservatives and heading up the Republican Party, radio ratings have entered the national political conversation. Radio ratings, done mainly by Arbitron, are, unlike their teevee counterparts, notoriously secretive, and intent...

by Geov Parrish Bla'M announced a while back, that since Seattle is about to become a competitive sports-talk radio market, and he has no interest in listening to (let alone writing about) sports talk, what he really needed was an ex-jock who knows something about media and radio. (Insert punchl...

Never mind the economy; forget about Iraq, even socialism and the race card can be pushed to the last segment. Radio talkers must talk about Rush Limbaugh. ~ Bill O'Reilly is talking about... Rush Limbaugh. Glennn Beck is talking about... Rush Limbaugh. Sean Hannity is talking about... Rush Limb...

A reader alerted us to another controversy blowing in Santa Barbara around Dr. Laura (KTTH m-f, 9p-12a) whose integrity was again found wanting after she was caught cheating in the arcane, wealthy world of yacht racing. Two of her boats were suspended for three months of racing after a disciplinary ...

This will be scoffed at by the usual codgerly defenders of talk radio, but consider this from AllAccess' Perry Michael Simon:'s weekly newsletter: You know about Twitter and Facebook already, and you probably even use them, but it's fascinating how much they can behave like talk radio: T...

How does KIROFM come in where you live? Have you made the switch yet ? How's it working for you? Will your listening habits be changed when the news talk format relocates April 1?   From reader Mike: I'm so bummed at work. We can't get KIROFM in the shop. it's scratchy no matte...

Golly, the Fairness Doctrine dead since the '80's was killed once again by the mighty Senate Republicans. Another straw man knocked to the ground, a big victory for the losers. (reminds us of our neutered tom cat's victorious "kill" of a plastic mousie). The question is: Will t...

Lowbrow conservatism, name-calling, neocons, bullying bluster, blind loyalty to George Bush and the abandonment of elitism on talk radio have allowed carny barkers to run away with the right. Although we've said similar stuff many times, this time it's an influential conservative magazine. (...