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Progressive Radio Network "Air America" meets the market headlong and only finds that the market is elsewhere. A bankrupt and discredited radio network serving a bankrupt and discredited ideology serving as press flacks for a bankrupt and discredited party. In the words of Zathras; " a sad life and a sad death, but at least we have symmetry".

I guess this means that "Progressives" will be forced back to listening to that den of Republican reactionaries on NPR.

I cant understand this. How could a network where the big headliner is the monotone voiced, viciously unfunny half of a comedy writing team from from the late 1970's, a hyperactive dysfunctional comedienne and a bowtie wearing junior birdman of the socialist left fail to find a market in greater America with all the free publicity the New York Times and virtually every other big media voice could generate?

Oh and Rhandi Rhoades. Rhight. Cant forget Rhandi Rhoades. Cant forget that she gets better ratings than Rush Limbaugh. yeah, cant forget that...

Oh, and Jerry Springer. Cant forget Jerry Springer. The mark of quality programming also worked for "Air America". Wow, the chance to listen to the man who brought trailer trash demographic to its prominence for 3 hours a day, I cant figure out why that didnt sell.

I listened to the station now and then. It was hard. Those were some real angry white folks on that station. Most of the shows were made up of 2 hours of "lets point out my indignity" and an hour of talking to each of the other hosts, and 10 minutes of callers, who were even more defeatist than the hosts. My first thought when I finished the first "Morning Sedition" was who in the world wants to listen to 3 hours a day of the voice of defeat and failure? They probably would have done better as a network had their programming not lead to the suicides of a high percentage of their listeners.

Posted @ October 13, 2006 07:54 AM

Comments

Abso-frikin'-lutely Frank.

They weren't honest with their audience. While Rush and Shawn would go nuts if a Republican did something stupid (depressingly common), Air America could never bring itself to critique anything that progressives did.

You can't do that in the New York market - our moonbats are too smart. They want strategy, tactics, and critique - not just BDS. We've got dozens of TV, Radio, and print outlets that do nothing but Bash-Bush all day long, and a little of that goes a long way.

They could have turned that station around in a New York minute if they'd been more honest with their listener(s) and called the illiberials on their errors (depressingly common). They couldn't do it.

Posted by: trainer at October 13, 2006 10:56 PM

You can never go wrong quoting Zathras.

Posted by: geoffb at October 17, 2006 09:46 PM