Letters to the Editor
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Preparing for Inevitable Decline
Like all fads/hot trends/pop trivialities, right-wing talk radio has peaked. As with professional wrestling, hair metal, boy bands, Porky's movies, at some point the audience stops growing, gets tired of the sameness, and/or grows up and out of following the fad. Advertisers and the rest of world sees the remaining audience as old, yet immature losers and the content as annoying and an easy target for ridicule.
Due to the enduring appeal of its politics, the rabid audience kept wingnut radio going longer than its natural life. Its obvious Limbaugh etc already see the end coming and are trying to extend their careers another year by blaming liberal censorship and the bogeyman Fairness Doctrine. While their ex-followers and the ads for "male enhancement" move to blogs and podcasts.