Sports talk culture

I think this is true. One is tempted to exaggerate, but one of the few places we hear real discussions of economic disparity, race, drug use, etc., is sports talk radio...at least the better ones, like Mike & The Mad Dog and, as discussed in the article, Rome's show (which I'm not all that familiar with).

In my opinion, there's no space to critique our current economy, whether you're Democrat or Republican. They're all on board around, basically, the government's to support corporations, rather than the old liberal, Keynesian economy, where the government's there to at least try to mediate the market forces. Everybody's on board now, I think even Barack Obama or Hillary: It's just unrestrained capitalism.

So I listen to radio. In order to do the research I also listened to Howard Stern and, you name it. NPR. And the only place where I hear some critique of our economic system, other than, oh, you know, Air America, is sports-talk radio, of all places. So I think in some ways, that's the potential.