Another American Voice is Gone
Norman Goldman is off the air. For those of you who don’t know, Goldman, a longtime attorney here in the state of California, hosted a radio call-in talk show for nine years, having previously been a regular contributor and frequent fill-in host for the late Ed Schultz. Goldman’s show was an impassioned three hours of views, legal analysis and civics that stood alone on those lonely, rare portions of the AM band willing to host something besides right-wing or sports talk. Few people could take apart the complex issues of law, politics and governance and make them not only understandable, but fun, as Goldman did, day in and day out. All that is gone now. He and his wife, Francis, had self-funded the radio program the whole time, and after losing two million dollars on the venture, they finally had to tap out. This post isn’t just about lamenting the loss of a great radio voice, but hopefully drawing your attention to the situation that has denied a voice to a massive chunk of the Ame...