Let the Record show that "Bill Noble" on or
about Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:30:57 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
It's a vast right-wing conspiracy! Conservatives didn't listen to
Air-America, advertisers didn't buy commercials because the audiences
weren't big enough. It SHOULD have been Government subsidized left-wing
propaganda! Oh, never mind...we have NPR.

maybe those with a more liberal bent don't require air personalities to tell
them how to think?

LOL. No need for you to project so much.

There is an old witticism "You can tell how intelligent a man is,
by whether or not they agree with you." Which is one reason why,
once the Feds got out of the business of regulating radio station
content, talk radio took off in the late eighties. Millions of people
suddenly heard someone on the radio who was obviously smart, because
the radio personality agreed with the listeners.

The problem is, and remains - where are the liberal radio
stations? Where are the liberal personalities? I'm not talking about
the occasional personality who takes a liberal slant on things, but
someone who has the fortitude to come right out and say "I'm a
Liberal!" Or for a radio station to change it's format to "All
Liberal, All the Time!" talk radio. I noticed this in Seattle,
there were at least three radio stations with self proclaimed
conservatives - but not one liberal dare to go on the radio call
themselves that in public. They have to use code words.
"Progressive". "Moderate". "Independent."

And now Air America is going off the air. It is sort of like
hearing that someone you knew died - and you're first response was "I
thought they died a long time ago."

My deepest condolences


pyotr

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pyotr filipivich
"I had just been through hell and must have looked like death warmed
over walking into the saloon, because when I asked the bartender
whether they served zombies he said, ‘Sure, what'll you have?'"
from I Hear America Swinging by Peter DeVries