By Premiere Networks
Feb 19, 2021
MARK: You know, before Rush, things were grim. You could be a right-wing guy, you could be modestly center right, but you lived in a center-left or far-left world. Basically when you switched on the TV, when you switched on the radio, it was Dan Rather, it was Peter Jennings, it was Oprah, it was Phil Donahue, and there wasn t a lot of talk stations because of the Fairness Doctrine.
It wasn t just that you had to balance out the left-wing talk with the right-wing talk so you could find a really great left-wing guy to give a two-hour show to but then you had to find a right-wing guy to give a two-hour show to. That was all incredibly difficult for most radio station owners. So it was easier just to program soft-and-easy favorites 24 hours a day or Top 40 or country or whatever, than actually trying to run a talk station because of the Fairness Doctrine.
Mark Steyn: Rush Limbaugh ‘Talent Returned to God’
Political commentator, author, and frequent guest host of
The Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Steyn wrote that he owes “almost everything” to Limbaugh, who passed away Wednesday morning after a year-long battle with lung cancer.
The witty Steyn, who often introduced himself as the “undocumented” guest host when Limbaugh was away from the EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) microphone, wrote at his website Steyn Online that the conservative “giant of American broadcasting” was “the indispensable man.” It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything…