Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times media critic David Shaw, reviewing Air America Radio:

After a few random samplings

3 Replies to “That must sting, huh?”

1. Juliette says:

   April 19, 2004 at 11:52 pm

   LOL That’s them alright.

2. The Sanity Inspector says:

   April 20, 2004 at 4:22 am

   From Neal Boortz’s program notes last week:

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   You’re hearing The Neal Boortz Show today on this radio station because your radio station wants to carry the show, not because some judge ordered them to do so.  How sad it would be to depend on the courts to have your talk show carried on crucial stations.
   
   Well .. that’s the way things seem to be with the much-vaunted liberal talk radio network, Air America.  Last night Air America got an injunction forcing the owner of WNTD in Chicago to put them on the air.  This gives new meaning to the term “affiliate relations,” doesn’t it? […]
   
   Doesn’t this sound a bit familiar somehow?  Walk through the sequence.  Here we have a left wing effort that apparently fails in the private market place.  Do you fall back, regroup, tweak your product, improve your business practices and give it another shot? Why no!  You’re a liberal You do what liberals have been doing for decades when their initiatives fail in the marketplace.  You go to court!  Of course!  You go to court to see if you can get a judge to do for you what you weren’t able to do for yourself in the free
   
   marketplace.  Liberals have a long and very rich history of resorting to implementing their agenda through court action.  It looks like they’re sticking to the same playbook here.

   http://boortz.com/nuze/200404/04162004.html

3. Dawn W says:

   April 21, 2004 at 2:47 am

   This part of the article threw me:

   “My fellow liberals have long argued that they haven’t been able to match the conservative success on talk radio because the medium is ideally suited to conservatives. According to this self-serving argument, conservatives are more willing than liberals to engage in nasty name-calling and to see everything in black and white, while liberals — concerned with nuance and complexity — are inevitably reasonable, willing to consider both sides of an issue. But President W’s policies — especially in Iraq — have now so enraged liberals that they are willing to play dirty too. Hence, Air America.

   Not.”

   My fellow liberals?

   I don’t know.  How liberal can he be with this torpedo aimed at the mother ship?  Something’s not right here.  Could it be that Shaw has been threatened and intimidated by the Bush administration like Dick Clarke?  Could it be that Shaw was kidnapped, drugged, tortured, reprogrammed and dumped on a beach (all legal thanks to the Patriot Act) like some sort of Manchurian candidate ?

   …And the wind…cries…Ashcroft…

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