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Politics : Err America: They Report, They Decide -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1044)	12/18/2006 3:16:56 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1513

The rightwing has tried to stop Air America and the rightwing controls the radio business. To dismiss that is naive. Air American had a very hard time breaking in. And they were promised 30 milllion by their investors and only got 6 million which put them behind the 8-ball to begin with. What's been missing all along are real businessmen with deep pockets. Al Franken is one of their stars. He is probably going to run against and beat Norm Coleman in 2007-2008, but they have a lot of time to plan for that. It may be Air America gets taken over. Or it gradually gets healthy. Or it could even disband and morph into something else, something bigger. One thing's for sure, the potential audience is HUGE and the country sure needs a lot more moderate and progressive radio talkshows. But the rightwing which controls 95% of the stations don't want them to get any air-time and will play any dirty trick to stop them. The rightwing wants its heartland listeners brainwashed and mis-informed. No truth or perspective allowed. That's why they fear Air America and regularly lie about it.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1044)	12/19/2006 9:59:04 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1513

The biggest problem with Err America is that the needs were already served by the biased formerly mainstream media. When investing in a business either a superior product that will wipe the current market leaders out or an unfilled niche are necessary. Liberals seem to have short attention spans, so talk radio is unlikely to supplant audio visual presentation. Thus, Err America came up short on both measures. The overwhelming liberal bias of the video and print mediums is exactly what ensured the success of "conservative" talk radio.