You might think he is if you saw THIS COVER of the latest New York Times Magazine. The photo they chose for a cover story interview on Hannity makes him look pretty angry, even though the lengthy article about one of radio’s most successful talkers was detailed, fair, and balanced.
For sure the photo fits right into the battle between two segments of the media. For decades, conservatives like Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have said newspapers (and the networks) such as The New York Times and Washington Post are liberal, slant coverage toward Democrats, and try to tear down long-standing conservative American values. Hannity tweeted that hundreds of photos were taken and joked the angry shot was “the best one” they could find?
The New York Times piece details Hannity’s successful radio journey from KTMS in Santa Barbara in 1989 to his syndication deal the day before the September 11 attacks. After KTMS, Hannity moved to KCSB at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was an unpaid position. In 1992, he accepted a job at WGST in Atlanta where he went to work criticizing Bill Clinton. Then it was onto evenings at WABC in New York in 1997.
The Times highlights Hannity’s close relationship with President Donald Trump. Hannity was an early supporter of Trump, some say an advisor. He still has Trump’s ear to this day. The piece also mentions that both radio and TV have made Hannity a rich man, netting him $36 million per year, according to Forbes.
Hannity has also been a keynote speaker at Radio Ink’s Forecast Conference in New York City
Interesting Peter and Realist… if you are reading this you most likely are connected to the media. We are all stagecraft and performance artists…. Are you really Number One for Music and Fun? Shows like Rush, Hannity, Savage, Levin, Larry King, Bohannon, etc. saved the AM band and took the Talk Radio Format to new heights. If you don’t like the shows, fine…don’t listen. But don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
I have no problem with Hannity – or even Alex Jones – being a “performance artist”. Radios have dials for people that don’t like certain content. In fact, we in radio are too tame in our content and worry about “offending” people when the highest paid TV stars come from a family that made and distributed a sex tape to become Multi Millionaires and we elected a P*ssy grabber President. Hannity can play whatever character he wants. But I don’t buy Alex Jones or Hannity like I don’t believe WWE matches are real. PT Barnum said nobody ever lost a dollar underestimating the intelligence of the American People and I have no problem shorting their acumen.
I do have concerns that the person who is supposed to lead this country is a FRAUD though. He was never running for President; he was running for ATTENTION and was only in it for money and vanity yet “poorly educated voters” actually took his shtick seriously and gave him a job he never wanted. That is not entertainment and can lead to catastrophe. Unfortunately as Teddy Roosevelt once noted – “Americans learn only from catastrophe, not experience.”
Like Trump, his “visual image” (i.e photo) is more important to him than anything else.
Yes, these people are performance artists first and foremost.
Hannity plays the part of a journalist.
Trump plays the part of a President.
Empty suits both of them, bamboozling the public with stagecraft.
The article only proves he is a “performance artist” like the other admitted fraud Alex Jones and the Reality Show Con Artist we elected President. All three are only playing a part to prey on the rubes who take it seriously. What was it that PT Barnum said again?