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Talk shows on radio and TV have become a kind of electronic surrogate for the town common. But what of the content? Susan Douglas says in this interview with David Barsamian, that it's more than just guys and right-wing blondes shouting at one another. Underneath the rhetoric are layers of misogyny, homophobia, race and class bias. The backlash against feminism has never stopped. The trumpeting of family values is code for restoration of patriarchy.
Susan Douglas, professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, is the author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female in the Mass Media and Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination.
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