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...address system. In that unlikely context, he primitively pioneered something akin to the now ubiquitous shock-jock style. With the help of a straight-arrow program director named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he pretty much elbowed his way into a job at WOL-AM, a near-moribund Washington, DC radio station, whose audience was basically black and basically fed up with conventional broadcasting...
...talked dirty (though he sometimes did), but that he talked autobiographically - about his shady past, about his bad habits (boozing, mainly), and about his mildly transgressive present. Mostly he talked about life as he (and his listeners) struggled with it. He was hip, cool, angry, funny and, in the radio of his day, unique...
...side as the furor over Vietnam overtook his presidency. And for good measure, it was Lady Bird who laid the roots for the Johnson-family wealth. In 1943 she invested $17,000 from her mother's estate in the purchase of KTBC, a small Austin radio station. Over the years it grew into a media conglomerate in which she was actively involved for more than four decades. But it's beautification she will be remembered for the most. And in the end, beauty may not be a bad way to describe what she brought to the role of First Lady...
...study also found that while the Internet has an overestimated value as a daily news source, the radio is in fact underestimated in its usage...
Many people—especially young adults—tune into the radio for music or other purposes and end up getting some news in addition, Patterson said...