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Liberal AM radio (Air America) fails to pay its own way, even in Santa Cruz: Fairness Doctrine
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 1.26.2007 | Shanna McCord

Posted on 01/26/2007 7:10:31 AM PST by rface

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To: zarf
"Forget politics. It's about talent."

True. The Airhead America nitwits sell so poorly, there is no competition so no one rises to the top. Even if they had some talented radio guy who wanted to espouse all that angry emotional crap, he would still have no audience. Nearly all the conservative radio guys have an excellent sense of humor and if their ideas or logic offend you, they are still fun and interesting to listen to. The only way anyone, even lefties, can listen to the illogical garbage espoused by other lefties, is if it is packaged as factual news, not a program with callers.

21 posted on 01/26/2007 7:34:39 AM PST by penowa (NO more Bushes; NO more Clintons EVER!)
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To: rface
heh heh heh

The KOMmY network.
That's as good as it being carried in NYC on wLIB!

22 posted on 01/26/2007 7:37:13 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: rface

"— articulate liberal pundits —"

WTF???


23 posted on 01/26/2007 7:37:45 AM PST by common denominator
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To: mad_as_he$$

Perhaps they'll put Quiq on in Watsonville for half a day.
He had two hours the other day.


24 posted on 01/26/2007 7:40:34 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: rface

Sigh...... I guess they will have to return to NPR which already gets subsidy along with their list of corporate donations(sponsors).

Fairness doctrines do not include failed business plans. There is nothing written anywhere that forces people to patronize bad business, just so they can stay open.

Bankruptcy for Air America is just another statistic of failed businesses.


25 posted on 01/26/2007 7:40:36 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: rface

The success the frogs have had with Airbus should serve them well if they buy err America.


26 posted on 01/26/2007 7:41:03 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: rface

Everything is fine here at Error America. We have thousands of radio stations airing our programs and 200 million listeners just in the USA alone. We are making tons of money and our on-air talent is very very happy. Everything is just fine!

27 posted on 01/26/2007 7:42:59 AM PST by Veggie Todd (Were those magic grits?)
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To: rface

Everyone dances on the grave of Air America, but the only reason why it failed is because there is a much larger and more successful left wing talk radio network: NPR.


28 posted on 01/26/2007 7:44:52 AM PST by Jibaholic (Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets)
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To: pepsionice

What they failed to realise is that most Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats, Yellow-dog Democrats, or whatever you would call them) are church-goers who love their country. Therefore Air America's style doesn't sell down here.

Funny, Republicans are blamed for being dividers yet the lib's way seems to be to throw anyone they hate out in the cold. They H-A-T-E most of America.


29 posted on 01/26/2007 7:47:19 AM PST by swampmonster
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To: Ditto
You would think that some local tofu shop or organic restaurant would have bought at least one ad.

The only time I've ever heard an ad for a "medical marijuana co-operative" was on the SF station running AA. Not many local businesses even in SF advertised there. It was mostly national campaigns.

30 posted on 01/26/2007 7:50:37 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: rface


"angry, nasty, pissing and moaning"

Best characterization of liberal talk I have ever encountered.


31 posted on 01/26/2007 7:54:43 AM PST by rod1
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To: rod1

Air America is Boston was replaced by Mexican Music. Isn't that ironic?


32 posted on 01/26/2007 7:58:55 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: rface

There it is. Liberalism fails miserably every time it is tried. But don't underestimate a liberal! Liberals will try to force liberalism to succeed with illegal and unconstitutional laws that punish opposing viewpoints (the "fairness" doctrine)


33 posted on 01/26/2007 7:59:44 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (fairness doctrine - not fair and not a doctrine)
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To: massgopguy

Perfect--A good Mexican polka or salsa is far more rousing than anything Randi Rhodes or Al Franken might have to say.


34 posted on 01/26/2007 8:03:06 AM PST by rod1
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To: rface

Small and medium sized business owners do not want to be associated with the nuts of the far left. Also, except for the Hollywood elite, the far-left do not contribute anything or buy much. If you are attracting the radical left to your business, you are going to go broke (unless you are a college coffee house).


35 posted on 01/26/2007 8:03:12 AM PST by giobruno
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To: rface
Taking Air America's place is oldies music — artists such as Roy Orbison



I'm crying, crying, cryyyyyying.

NOT

Cheers,

knewshound

Latest article; Queer Eye for a Dictator Guy
36 posted on 01/26/2007 8:08:02 AM PST by knews_hound (Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
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To: Jibaholic
much larger and more successful left wing talk radio network: NPR.

Apply market forces to NPR and it would most likely be toast as well.

37 posted on 01/26/2007 8:21:12 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (sdrawkca-ssaB eb ot smees gnihtyreve tuoba tsuj ,syad esehT)
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To: rface
I thought liberal radio would work as a viable advertising business in the most liberal town in America. I was wrong

Obviously this person has a fundamental misunderstanding of liberal though processes. Liberals spend OTHER peoples' money, tell OTHER people what to do, how to do it and when to do it, let OTHER people do those distasteful things like enforce the goofy laws they enact and protect the country, let OTHER people go to lousy schools, live in government housing (I would say squalid but that's redundant), take rotten public transportation. In other words, supporting anything financially is a foreign concept to liberals.

38 posted on 01/26/2007 8:25:06 AM PST by relictele
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To: rface

There is a reason liberals dont make it on talk radio. If you want Bush bashing, or Republican bashing in general, you already have acsess to it on the evening news and the major papers.


39 posted on 01/26/2007 8:29:23 AM PST by weezel
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To: rface

If you've ever talked to a liberal, you know they only have two debating techniques: Their first tactic is name calling. "George Bush is an idiot!" That pretty much sums up their ideology. Their second tactic is changing the subject. If you respond to their "George Bush is an idiot" charge with, "He has a Bachelor's degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard," they'll say something like "Dick Cheney is in a conspiracy with Halliburton!" That exchange doesn't play very well on talk radio.


40 posted on 01/26/2007 8:43:43 AM PST by highimpact
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