“KGO’s Bernie Ward was creepy and a disgrace long before he got popped for kiddie porn. His KGO colleague, late-night liberal pontificator Ray Taliaferro, is almost as bad,” writes Bay Area Media Group columnist Bill Mann, who has problems with both left-wing and right-wing talkers: “Talk radio these days, in a word, is a cesspool. It’s an open sore on the flesh of democracy, one the servile, broadcaster-friendly FCC has let fester while worrying more about the likes of Janet Jackson.”