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air america
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| death by internet + msnbc |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
10:34 1.22.10 |
| and, most importantly: the number of lefty-types in the air america target demographic who would actually be able to listen to the radio during long stretches of the 9-5 day is essentially zero. |
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| all good (?) things must come to an end... |
| posted by: publius |
09:17 1.22.10 |
this, i believe is the textbook case of "going out with a whimper instead of a bang"....
air america, rip...
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/news/companies/air_america_bankrupt/index.htm
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| Franken = Geography God |
| posted by: isidorus |
23:20 9.27.09 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-FYyuvrRk
sure, this could be learned after lots and lots and practice, but he's a new senator, and hardly has the time to learn something like this, so I'm ascribing it to skill alone. And he's pretty funny while drawing it too. You can listen to him during a full length rendition here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfcrqXtxOM |
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| * shudder * |
| posted by: publius |
17:19 12.19.07 |
much as i am glad air america is out there as some sort of counterbalance to the absurd radio of the right, i cannot even imagine how awful this event would be...
http://www.airamericacruise.com/ |
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| i've actually run into air ame |
| posted by: horsebeater |
11:50 11.3.06 |
... he's, shall we say, a "colorful" lawyer. he'd fit in with the defense bar; not so much the bankruptcy bar.
I cracked up when I saw his name next to the air america stuff. |
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| touche |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
11:39 11.3.06 |
horsebeater is feeling saucy today, i can already tell.
i love it! |
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| bankruptcy |
| posted by: horsebeater |
10:05 11.3.06 |
i guess liberals like to hear themselves talk, not listen to other people.
http://tinyurl.com/yhxakx |
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| a note from rfk jr..... |
| posted by: publius |
22:22 11.15.05 |
right to me and my ilk...
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Dear Friend of Air America:
I'm thankful for you.
With your help, voters across America have sent a powerful message to the Bush Administration and their right-wing cronies.
The party's over.
Last Tuesday's sweeping victories for Democrats and progressives pulled back the curtain from the much-vaunted Bush-Cheney-Rove political machine, revealing what Air America listeners have known all along: there's nobody there. After five years of lies, fear-mongering and electoral manipulation, voters from New Jersey to Virginia said, "Enough."
Governor-elect Jon Corzine summed it up succinctly in his acceptance speech: "I want to thank the people of New Jersey for rejecting the Bush-Rove tactics that we see in politics."
And it was more than just the victories in New Jersey and Virginia that sent shockwaves through the Republican establishment. The right-wing agenda took a major hit from voters across the nation last week:
· In St. Paul, Minnesota the incumbent Democratic mayor, who last year endorsed George W. Bush for a second term, was trounced in his own reelection bid by a Democrat who made that endorsement the centerpiece of his campaign.
· In Maine, an effort to repeal a law that protects gays and lesbians from discrimination was defeated
· In Dover, Pennsylvania, all eight of the local school board members who supported the teaching of "intelligent design" were voted out.
But now is not the time to sit back and rest on our victories. Our fight to restore progressive values in America still has a long way to go.
With your support, Air America Radio will remain at the forefront of that fight. There are three ways that you can help right now:
1) Join the Air America community by strongly supporting the AAR Associates campaign by clicking here: https://secure.airamericaradio.com.
2) If you're listening to Air America Radio on your local station, thank them for carrying your favorite AAR programs.
3) If you don't yet have an Air America Radio affiliate in your area, let us know today.
The biggest obstacle progressives face isn't even the Bush Administration or a Republican-controlled Congress. Our greatest challenge continues to be the stranglehold of the right-wing propaganda machine over our nation's media. Thirty percent of Americans now say that their primary source of news is talk radio. And fully ninety percent of talk radio is dominated by the leading propagandists of the Right: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and their factually-challenged ilk.
With your strong support, Air America Radio has defied the so-called "experts" who said that progressive talk radio would never succeed.
In less than twenty months, Air America Radio has grown to include more than 70 stations, reaching over 60% of the country.
More than ever, we must continue that growth. With the 2006 mid-term elections less than a year away, we need Air America Radio to remain a powerful voice for progressive values in the public square.
Become a part of the Air America community by joining the AAR Associates campaign today at https://secure.airamericaradio.com.
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, there are strong signs that the right-wing's domination of talk radio is finally coming to an end. And that's something for which we can all be thankful.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
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| granted... |
| posted by: publius |
22:57 3.22.05 |
the "facts" behind what drudge is saying are probably true...air america was definitely a train wreck around the time of its launch.
but the tone of this drudge "exclusive" is so absurd that it steals the show from whatever it is he's talking about. drudge and jeff gannon should get together to form the most pathetic, transparent, self-aggrandizing apparatchik tandem the world has ever known...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3aa.htm |
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| steve earle... |
| posted by: publius |
11:28 1.20.05 |
sets up shop on air america...
http://www.airamericaradio.com/shows/revolutionstartsnow/
has anyone listened to air america recently? apparently i signed up to get their email newsletter at some point, and from what's in there it seems like there are some potentially interesting things that have developed from their very painful growing pains... |
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| those air america guys are wac |
| posted by: publius |
17:29 8.25.04 |
| http://www.thegreatamericanshoutout.org |
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| seems there's at least some de |
| posted by: publius |
00:49 6.3.04 |
when they're beating limbaugh in ny...
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#franken
(you may have to click on the link, watch an ad, and then click on the link again once you've been registered for the day...) |
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| can this ship be righted? |
| posted by: publius |
15:55 5.13.04 |
| http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=5125267 |
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| if this an example of "liberal |
| posted by: publius |
19:33 5.11.04 |
long live liberal media bias....
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&u=/ap/20040511/ap_en_tv/tv_cbs_iraq_prisoners_1&printer=1 |
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| on a side note |
| posted by: ludwig |
11:50 5.11.04 |
I got a ride form a friend sunday night and we listened to Drudge's radio show. It was the worst radio program I've ever heard. It was like he was flipping through index cards with random thoughts he had come up with over the week. It was a tortutous hour.
I still haven't listened to air america. ia gree with rall. you have to start with real radio people and then have them supplemented with lefty comedians. trying to covert al franken to a radio host is tough. that having been said, i still look back fondly on the slef-proclaimed "al franken decade." |
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| ted rall's take on air america |
| posted by: publius |
11:46 5.11.04 |
love or hate mr. rall (the below text was pulled from his blog, here: http://www.rall.com/rants.html ) which is uneven but interesting/amusing at points. i think he makes some good points about air america (especially getting all new hosts except for randi rhodes - she rawks):
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First and foremost, the central conceit of using comedy to counter right-wing vitriol doesn't work. When I started on KFI, I wanted to do comedy bits too, and I did have segments--Brooklyn Traffic with Dave Eggers (for a station in L.A.), the San Francisco Fog Report with Jesse Kalisher, Cinema is Dead with Cole Smithey, Wade Hamilton's Celebrity Watch with Ruben Bolling--but I quickly learned that on radio humor is the icing on the cake, not the main meal. People listen to feel informed, to hear ideas and arguments they can use at work the next day around the water cooler. You don't get that stuff on Air America.
Second, most of the hosts have no talk radio experience. It's embarrassing beyond belief for a talent the caliber of Al Franken to have to have a co-host to push the buttons and issue formatics ("This is the O'Franken Factor..."). Franken should have gone it alone after training at small station somewhere first.
Third, Air America is reacting to what the Republicans and the right does and says. They don't set their own agenda. Successful political talk requires men and women who, were they appointed president by a rogue Supreme Court, would already have a list of policies to enforce and cabinet members to appoint. You don't get that sense on Air America.
Finally, the editorial content is mushy. A few days ago, I heard Franken try to defend John Kerry on charges of waffling. Look, Kerry IS a waffler. It goes back to Vietnam, when he tried to be a war hero AND a peacenik, a game he's still playing. My old program director David Hall, who has forgotten more about talk radio than I'll ever know, used to harp on credibility. A host without credibility won't be listened to. Anyone who tries to defend Kerry as a man of integrity is kidding himself but nobody else.
It sounds like AA is reshuffling its management. That's good, if it leads to a clean sweep on the programming side. The only host I'd keep is Randi Rhodes, a veteran of San Francisco talk radio. I'd hire hosts ranging from radical left to centrist Democrat, all with balls out personnas and credible arguments to defend their points of view. And I'd lose the whole Comedy Central thing. It sucks and it's boring.
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| agreed on most counts... |
| posted by: publius |
15:13 5.7.04 |
(and welfare mothers were only pulled in b/c like liberal media bias it is (perhaps was in that case, at this point) such a clichéd conservative chestnut).
as i said, i agree that if there is a slant in the general mass media it is perhaps slightly to the left, but only just. but if you're talking about a true progressive voice, there is next to nothing out there aside from print publications (harpers, etc.). the press is pretty damned centrist, though under this administration even dead center would look pretty liberal by comparison.
and i don't think the reason for the lack of a true progressive voice can be reduced to simple economics. liberals have always been somewhat hesitant to play the neo-con game, perhaps too snootily feeling that getting down and dirty was beneath them. but when you get cheney speaking on the air on limbaugh's show you can see pretty clearly what kind of cards this administration is holding, and finally we're seeing a pissed-off, by-any-means-necessary response to the tactics that have served the neo-cons so well. if someone can get the formula and funding right, i'm pretty certain a progressive radio outlet will fly.
and let us not forget gore's new tv station...i can't say i've got high hopes for that, but we shall see. |
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| yet again we have to come back |
| posted by: vox_clamantis |
14:59 5.7.04 |
If people really did want to hear that sort of programming, it would be economically viable. I agree that talk radio is much more conservative, but that is because it is the only place it can exist. Certainly, network TV (which I would assume is most people's source for news), is more liberal than radio. And how did my comments on the economic viability of radio stations become an attack on poor people? I am pretty sure I didn't mention welfare mothers...
I just think that Al Franken (who I used to like) is a rather sad, unfunny person. And Air America is a perfect example of how his schtick doesn't play in Peoria. Too bad...The average American in the red state is entitled to an opinion like everyone else. |
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| oh come now... |
| posted by: publius |
14:50 5.7.04 |
"every media outlet in the us, perhaps with the exception of fox news and the New York Post, is already ragingly liberal". thank you mr. hannity. would you like to add any comments on welfare mothers while we're rolling out the neo-con barrel?
and if we're speaking in terms of radio, you're dead wrong. conservative radio dominates the political airwaves. it's oppressive. you can make an argument that npr serves to balance it out, but trying to balance vipers like hannity and limbaugh with tweedy-old npr is absurd. air america is playing the nu-metal conservatives' own game and they, or someone like them who have their act a bit more together, are a needed voice. |
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| I guess the free market really |
| posted by: vox_clamantis |
14:22 5.7.04 |
| Maybe because every media outlet in the US, perhaps with the exception of Fox News and the New York Post, is already ragingly liberal, there wasn't a need for Air America. Long live the invisible hand! |
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| things are not looking so good |
| posted by: publius |
13:35 5.7.04 |
at our favorite/only liberal radion station:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=503&u=/ap/20040507/ap_en_bu/liberal_radio_shakeup_3&printer=1 |
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