Air America files for bankruptcy
By Sean Aqui | Related entries in Breaking News, General Politics, Media, Money, News, Partisan HacksFinancial, not moral.
Think Progress reported it a month ago, but nothing came of it. But they clearly were on to something. Air America said it only recently decided to file after negotiations with a key financial backer fell through, but it’s been obvious they were having money troubles for a long time.
They’re going to stay on the air during reorganization.
I like fellow Minnesotan Al Franken, so I listened to a couple of his shows when they first went on the air. But although I’m a political junkie, I found I had no appetite or time for partisan radio, liberal or conservative.
So my question in all this is: Does anyone here actually care? Will this have an effect on the political landscape? And does it say anything substantive about liberal talk radio, or talk radio in general?
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October 13th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
It really harkens the age old philosophical question of “if a tree falls in the woods, but no one is around to hear it, does it really make any noise.” I hope that Air America stays afloat because it (and the dark side of the moon) are the perfect venues for Al Franken - a kind of quarantine for the stupid.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
I don’t care for political talk radio either (I prefer sports talk radio, but barely have time even for that), so this is rather ho-hum news to me.
BTW Air America is, at least for the time being, still on XM Satellite Radio’s talk-channel lineup. Interestingly it’s sandwiched in between two conservative talk channels, “America Right” and Fox News Talk.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Such overt liberal talk radio may not have much of an audience, but NPR certainly does well.
October 13th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
You know, I’ve never found NPR all that horribly liberal. From time-to-time they’ll have a news story on that is reported in a way that reveals a pretty clear liberal bias but, for the most part, their news programs are far more in-depth, much better written and vastly more informative than any TV news program. Their regular commentators are to the left, but they very often have on conservative guest commentators. I’ve even heard the head of the Minutemen Project give an editorial (without comment from NPR). So I tend to think that those who blast NPR as overtly liberal probably never listen.
As for Air America, I think even its supporters don’t listen. I’ve never bothered to tune it in and will not mourn the station should it ultimately fail.
October 15th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Alan - I second your comments on NPR. I too hear the occational leftward slant. But I would go to them before I went to a Fox News program.