The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

Who is Michael Savage? On its surface the answer seems obvious: he's a 66-year-old nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host whose program, The Savage Nation, airs five days a week from its home base of KNEW in San Francisco. He's the founder of the Paul Revere Society, which, according to its mission statement, aims to "take back our borders, our language, and our traditional culture from the liberal left corroding our great nation." He's a ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Informative blog post about right wing talk radio host Michael Savage, born Michael Alan Weiner. I learned useful new information about this controversial personality, who reaches over 8 million listeners on his popular talk show. This fascinating story deserves to be told in depth -- with a focus on why Savage suddenly turned from liberal to conservative 25 years ago. The article ventures some guesses based on hearsay, but offers insufficient evidence from too few sources to help us reach a definitive conclusion. I would have liked to see original interviews with Savage himself and with his current friends, besides quotes from third party reports. The author's repeated use of derogatory language to describe Savage also raises questions about the impartiality of this report, which at times reads like an opinion piece. Nonetheless, this is an interesting read about an important topic, and I look forward to the other articles on right wing radio hosts profiled in the author's upcoming book, 'Shock Jocks'. [Disclosure: Rory O'Connor was NewsTrust's first editorial director and a close advisor]

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