“Rush Limbaugh: Controversial US radio host dies of advanced lung cancer aged 70.”

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of television, radio and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was interviewed by Sky News (UK) for the story “Rush Limbaugh: Controversial US radio host dies of advanced lung cancer aged 70.” Thompson, an expert on popular culture, believes Limbaugh was so popular because he was so controversial. “He wasn’t the first to do that kind of right-wing ideological commentary on the radio, but part of the appeal is also part of what used to get him in trouble, he would just go out there and say stuff no matter how outrageous it might be,” Thompson says.