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Rory O'Connor is one of the smartest media guys around... a devastating portrait of the avarice, cynicism, and psychopathology of one of the strangest media phenomena of our time: the shock jock.

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Archive for October, 2008

Rory’s Arizona Tour

Posted by Shock Jocks Book on Oct 15 2008 | Shock Jocks, Audio

Last week Rory flew out to the desert and appeared on Tucson’s KXCI Community Radio on David Yerkey’s A View From Slightly Off Center (listen here) and then, a few days later, gave a talk which was listen to here which was followed by a little audience Q-and-A.

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