O'Connor and Aaron Cutler deliver a lively, well deserved punch in the nose to these powerful bloviators.

--Ken Auletta

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.

--Michael Wolff



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Rory Quoted in the Boston Phoenix

Posted by Shock Jocks Book on Nov 20 2008 | Shock Jocks, Press

The Boston Phoenix’s Adam Reilly explains the connection between talk radio, the Fairness Doctrine, and Net Neutrality. An excerpt where Rory is quoted about Shock Jocks:

“The Fairness Doctrine is a 20th-century response to 21st-century problems,” he says. “It didn’t work so well in the first place. It was misused and abused by political operatives in both parties.” There is, O’Connor claims, “no way in Hell” that the Fairness Doctrine’s going to be reinstated. Conservatives are only milking the subject to “excite the base, create outrage, and drive up ratings.”

For some more information about the Fairness Doctrine and its applicability under an Obama presidency, read Paul Jenensch’s piece in the Connecticut Post on conservative talkers’ response to the election.

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