Bumped into a high school friend for the first time in 30 years.

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124. the most significant thing reagan did was kill the fairness doctrine, which unleashed the RW radio

monopoly propaganda operation, altho it didn't matter who actually owned the stations. limbaugh and sons deified reagan and helped get the whole iran contra oct surprise treason to disappear.

they set up limbaugh on 600 stations, most still doing the same shit and half of them endorsed by universities and pro sports teams, and because he would only take paid callers his fawning dittoheads would make sure the other blowhards who actually took calls on those and a 1000 other stations were all on the same Limbaugh /gop page, or get screamed at and fired on issues like abortion, iran, iraq, russia, tax breaks for billionaires, etc.

the record partisanship started soon after that started, in the early 1990s when rw radio began to dominate and whoever fed limbaugh and limbaugh and all his wannabes and 1500 radio stations screamed anyone who cooperated with democrats was a traitor.

if the political 'analysts' had figured that out we wouldn't be in this disaster. while they can't be blamed for listening to the lies and stupid from those stations they can be blamed for not doing the simple math, and for not now using AI to digitize it all