“This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America’s daily talk-fest with newly sharpened eyes.”
“Funny, well-researched, fully theorized. . . . Engaged and humane scholarship. . . . A pretty inspiring example of what talking back to the mass media can be.”
“Bold, witty. . . . There’s a lot of empirical work behind this deceptively easy read, then, and it allows for the most sophisticated and complex analysis of talk shows yet.”