Broadcast Blackout

IT IS a sunny afternoon in Southern California, and the asphalt isn’t the only thing giving off heat. Larry Elder, the black libertarian who hosts the “drive time” (3 to 7 P.M.) talk show on KABC radio, is offering homeward-bound motorists his patented intellectual sizzle-today training fire on a favorite target: racial preferences.

Steve from Los Angeles, himself an African-American, is steamed. “I’m not one to defend affirmative action,” this caller says, “but Larry, there’s nothing better on the books right now.”