Barry Farber is a legendary and influential figure in the history of modern American media.  He is best known for being a pioneering host of intelligent talk radio, on the air almost continuously since 1960 right up to the present time.  These days, at age 87, he is still going strong, hosting a nightly live hour-long talk radio program, The Barry Farber Show. It was back in mid-20th-century America – the height of the post-World War II "American Century" – that Farber and a small group of colleagues experimented with and quickly established the enduring popularity of the innovative talk radio format on the highest rated stations in New York City, America's #1 media market.  Other pioneers of radio were working the same magic in other American cities, big and small.  In the first three decades of radio, programming had centered on music, live and recorded; comedies, dramas, and sitcoms; and frothy variety...(Read Full Article)