If you want to be informed rather than entertained, there isn't much on the radio worth listening to.
It's not the most exciting radio in the world, but I listen to a lot of CSPAN radio when I'm in the car. It's hard to beat the raw source . A few months ago I was in the car for a long trip and listened to about 4 of the 11-12 hours of Hillary's testimony on Benghazi. I thought it was one of those things that speaks (for better or worse) more about her than all of the combined campaign news I've seen since. The sound bites in the news the next day didn't do it justice. Occasionally they'll air some Supreme Court questioning, which I wish they would do more often.
NPR can also be good on their longer form stuff, but I find it varies topic to topic. I don't commute in the car, so I'm in there at random times and never catch the same shows day to day.
As far as regular conservative talk radio goes, I do listen to Mark Levin on occasion. I disagree with most of what he says, but he can be entertaining when he stays calm. Most of his schtick is to get riled up and angry though, which gets old fast. The local morning talk show on the right wing radio (Mornings on the Mall here in DC) can be pretty good because they talk about news from a conservative perspective. After that the station goes in to Chris Plante, el Rushbo, and Michael Savage for the rest of the day though, all of which are completely intolerable for the reasons you say. The shows are about 5% issues, 95% calling liberals stupid. Boring.
If I commuted by car I'd listen to a lot of podcasts.
It's not the most exciting radio in the world, but I listen to a lot of CSPAN radio when I'm in the car. It's hard to beat the raw source . A few months ago I was in the car for a long trip and listened to about 4 of the 11-12 hours of Hillary's testimony on Benghazi. I thought it was one of those things that speaks (for better or worse) more about her than all of the combined campaign news I've seen since. The sound bites in the news the next day didn't do it justice. Occasionally they'll air some Supreme Court questioning, which I wish they would do more often.
NPR can also be good on their longer form stuff, but I find it varies topic to topic. I don't commute in the car, so I'm in there at random times and never catch the same shows day to day.
As far as regular conservative talk radio goes, I do listen to Mark Levin on occasion. I disagree with most of what he says, but he can be entertaining when he stays calm. Most of his schtick is to get riled up and angry though, which gets old fast. The local morning talk show on the right wing radio (Mornings on the Mall here in DC) can be pretty good because they talk about news from a conservative perspective. After that the station goes in to Chris Plante, el Rushbo, and Michael Savage for the rest of the day though, all of which are completely intolerable for the reasons you say. The shows are about 5% issues, 95% calling liberals stupid. Boring.
If I commuted by car I'd listen to a lot of podcasts.