In a few seconds, we'll be talking with Andre Bacard, author of Computer Privacy Handbook . I'm in the midst of my third national tour to discuss the soon to be a best-seller, Computer Privacy Handbook . This a such a hot topic that in a thirty-six hour period I was a guest on six shows. Fortunately, Peachpit Press in Berkeley and publicist Susan Harrow in San Francisco are doing a super job keeping my schedule straight. It is a group of several hundred radio programs around America that discuss controversial issues.
Listeners pick up their phones to praise, criticize, and debate hosts and guests.
Radio talk, along with the Internet, is a relatively free-speaking media. Radio talk shows, even at the national level with hosts Jim Hightower, Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy, Larry King, Ross Perot, and Michael Reagan, provide forums that mainstream television and simply ignore. The Bay Area is a mecca for radio talk. I recently saw how dramatically a host can impact people. At the end of July, KGO's popular host Duane Garrett jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge to his death.