Talkers magazine lists its criteria for inclusion in its \"Heavy Hundred\" as courage, effort, impact, longevity, potential revenue, ratings, recognition, service, talent and uniqueness. Missing from that list is the key criteria for any talker, left wing or right: reporting that informs their opinions. Joe Walsh and Michael Savage specialize in overheated venting backed by nothing more than their inch-deep analysis. At the top, Hannity in particular and Rush deserve their Nos. 1-2 ratings. Dan Proft at WIND-AM and Michael Medved (wherever he is) should be among the heavyweights.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Websites of the Chicago Tribune and other tronc newspapers were blocked to readers in Europe last week while the Chicago-based company decides whether to comply with the European Union\u2019s strict new data privacy law. Tronc had two years to prepare for the new regulations, which limit businesses collecting information about... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18192,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions\/18192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}