Insult, like any other minor art, attracts its not-so-artful practitioners. Currently the bluntest instrument of them all is a Los Angeles broadcaster named Joe Pyne, who has become simultaneously the ...

These days, we're used to media that thrives on conflict and amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. We can trace this style back to the shock jocks of the 1980s, like Howard Stern, or to in ...