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Browse the NewsHour's coverage of media issues . Conservative radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger aims to provoke. Controversy has earned her the second-highest talk show ratings in the nation, second only to Rush Limbaugh. She is broadcast on more than 450 stations. Now Dr. Laura, as she is known, wants to translate that success to television with her own daytime talk show this fall, produced and syndicated by Paramount studios.