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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (33070)	2/18/2003 12:08:12 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

If they get money for it, I wouldn't give them a penny. The democrats are saying they want to start a liberal radio station to counter balance Rush's... Democrats plan liberal radio network Jim Rutenberg; The New York Times A group of wealthy Democratic donors is planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance the conservative tenor of radio programs like "The Rush Limbaugh Show." The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is in talks with Al Franken, the comedian and author of "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot." It hopes to enlist other well-known entertainers with a liberal point of view for a 14-hour, daily slate of commercial programs that would heavily rely on comedy and political satire. The plan faces several business and content challenges, from finding a network of radio stations to buy the program to overcoming the poor track record of liberal radio shows. But it is the most ambitious undertaking yet to come from liberal Democrats who believe they are overshadowed in the political propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities. The concern has been around for years: Hillary Rodham Clinton first mentioned a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" in 1998. But the sentiment has taken on new urgency with the rise to the top of the cable news ratings of the Fox News Channel, considered by many to have a conservative slant, and the Republicans' gaining control of the Senate in November. The new liberal radio network is initially being financed by the Paradigm Group, of which the Drobnys are the principal partners. Jon Sinton, a longtime Atlanta-based radio executive, will be its chief executive. Many conservatives who assert the news media in general is infused with liberal bias say the premise of a liberal radio network is silly to begin with. But liberal Democrats say even if a liberal bias does exist, the mainstream news media strive for balance and fair play. They say their concern is that there are far fewer successful, outright partisan voices on the left than there are on the right.