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A timely cannon blast at the right-wing media machine and how it subverts the principles of democratic representation. Talk radio has done an end run around the voting populace. With Rush Limbaugh now the unofficial leader of the Republican Party and the far right controlling the five major syndicates, conservatives have a disproportionate voice in the medium-even in liberal cities such as New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Writing with his characteristic...

In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.

Reed Fish seems to be leading the life he's supposed to. Followed in the footsteps of his late father, Reed does an early-morning radio show with the town's mayor, Maureen. He produces the show with his old high school buddy, Frank, and he is engaged to be married to another friend from high school, the gorgeous Kate. Kate's dad seems to own every business in town. But Reed's plans are upended when his high school sweetheart, Jill, comes back to town....