BATTLE HYMN OF THE NEW LIBERAL MEDIA
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If corporations can play the talk radio game, so can labor unions.
United Auto Workers has put money and resources into developing the
i.e. America Radio Network, which syndicates liberal talk radio
from coast to coast. "Following on i.e.'s successes, AnShell media,
according to industry rumors, is on the verge of achieving funding
goals to roll out America's second liberal radio network in
January," notes i.e. America talker Thom Hartmann. "Al Gore and
Joel Hyatt are talking about a cable TV network to take on Fox
News. ... Progressive business people and labor unions are learning
from the success of conservative media that with a good business
plan and a little patience it's possible to both advance your
side's social/political goals and to reach customers and potential
members. Working together with progressive talent, liberal
activists, and progressive, democracy-oriented companies and
unions, America's "new liberal media" just may succeed in the
battle to wrest American back from the clutching fingers of the
extremist conservatives who've held sway these past two decades."
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