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...times, polls may be the one remaining authority that the press customarily accepts without question. The subject may be the Panama invasion (the public supported it), the arrest of Mayor Marion Barry (Washingtonians thought he should resign), or Jane Pauley's treatment by NBC (PEOPLE readers who answered a call-in survey found it unfair), but editors rarely meet a poll they don't like. Polls have even been published reporting the number of California drivers with paraphernalia hanging from their rearview mirrors (8%), and Iowans with ornaments on their lawns...
Many Barry supporters have long asserted that the mayor's problems with federal prosecutors were racially motivated. Cathy Hughes, a Washington businesswoman who owns a radio station and is host of a popular call-in talk show, scoffed that the best prosecutors could come up with was "a multimillion-dollar misdemeanor charge." Hughes, who is informally polling listener support for Barry, said, "The community is saying to him, 'Get well, come home, we're waiting...
...Right with Lou Holtz of Notre Dame (price: $595), has sold briskly. The living, breathing version of Holtz is totally booked on the lecture circuit through 1990 at an estimated $10,000 per inspirational pop. Moreover, he has his own syndicated cable TV show and a national radio call-in program, and he's featured in magazine ads promoting the Holtz philosophy, paid for by Volkswagen. These things tend to happen when...
...rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve into slicker life forms than we human beings were ever meant...
...folks, these are hosts of radio call-in shows. Such programs, of course, have long served as a sort of national party line, a place where average citizens can rant, in blissful anonymity, about everything from the local baseball team's losing streak to the Bush Administration's arms policy. The hosts are often loud and abrasive, with an opinion for every issue and a put-down for every adversary. But in the past few months, a clutch of conversationalists has crossed the line from simply mouthing off to orchestrating nationwide political protests...