Air America Bankrupted, by George!
Air America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. They vow to valiantly remain on the airwaves in case somebody accidentally tunes in, but I fear it’s only a matter of time before they hang up their microphones for good. It is truly a sad day for Free Speech in this country.
Air America was a vital educational resource, so it should have been completely taxpayer-funded instead of forced to compete for listeners on the open market. Once again, the GOP has used capitalism to silence the lone liberal voice in the conservative-dominated radio wilderness. Now all we progressives have left to counter the Right-Wing Noise Machine is ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, TBS, NPR, CNN, BBC, HBO, HSN, MTV, VH1, Showtime, The Abortion Channel, Gore TV, Reuters, The Associated Press, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New Republic, the Nation, The New Yorker, TV Guide, People Magazine, Teen People, Us Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, The Advocate, Esquire, Vogue, Cosmopolitian, Humpty Dumpty, Architectural Digest, Cat Fancy, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Swank, Sugar Tits Quarterly, the Harvard Perspective, High Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, The Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Arizona Daily Star, The Anniston Star , The Decatur Daily, Montgomery Advertiser, The Tuscaloosa News, Anchorage Daily News Arkansas Time, Tuscon Daily Star, The Alameda Times-Star, Contra Costa Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, The Fresno Bee, Marin Independent Journal, Merced Sun-Star, The Modesto Bee, The Monterey County Herald, The Oakland Tribune, La Opinion, The Santa Rose Press Democrat, The Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, San Mateo County Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Valejo Times-Herald, The Eureka Times Standard, The Ventura County Star, Aspen Daily News, The Boulder Daily Camera, Durango Herald, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Greeley Daily Tribune, The Stamford Advocate, The Wilmington News Journal, Bradenton Herald, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Florida Today, The Gainesville Sun, The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, St Petersburg Times, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Treasure Coast News/Press-Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Macon Telegraph, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Bonner County Daily Bee, The Idaho Statesman, Chicago Defender, Chicago Sun-Times, Edwardsville Intelligencer,Rockford Register, Lafayatte Journal and Courier, The Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Quad City Times, The Storm Lake Tribune, The Hutchinson News, Lexington Herald-Leader, The Louisville Courier-Journal, Teen Lexington Herald-Leader, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, The Shreveport Times, Bangor Daily News. the Kennebec Journal, Portland Press Herald, The Baltimore Sun, The Berkshire Eagle, The Framingham MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News. The Springfield Republican, The New Bedford Standard-Times, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Argus-Press, The Bay City Times, The Battle Creek Enquirer, the Detroit Free Press, The Flint Journal, the Lansing State Journal, Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, The Muskegon Chronicle, Parasites Weekly, Petoskey News-Review, The Saginaw News, the Port Huron Times Herald, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Duluth News Tribune, The Mankato Free Press, St. Cloud Times, the Columbia Daily Tribune, The Kansas City Star, St. Louis American, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Springfield News-Leader, Billings Gazette, Las Vegas Mercury, the Las Vegas Sun, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Appeal, the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Concord Monitor, The Keene Sentinel, the Portsmouth Herald, The Nashua Telegraph, the Lebanon-Hanover Valley News, The Bergen Record, the Burlington County Times, the Bridgewater Courier News, the Camden Courier-Post, The Vineland Daily Journal, the Parsippany Daily Record, The Jersey Journal, The Gloucester County Times, The Hackensack Record, the Newark Star-Ledger The Trenton Times, the Albuquerque Tribune, The Santa Fe New Mexican, The Buffalo News: “News for Discerning Buffalo”, the Oneonta Daily Star, The Ithaca Journal The White Plains Journal-News, The Corning Leader, Newsday, The Glen Falls Post-Star, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Elmira Star-Gazette, the Staten Island Advance, the Albany Times-Union, Willie the Wino’s Grand Central Station Restroom Scribblings, the Asheville Citizen Times, The Charlotte Observer, the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, The Greenville Daily Reflector, The Raleigh News & Observer, the Greensboro News & Record, The Southern Pines Pilot, the Wilimgton Star-News, The Bismarck Tribune, the Grand Forks Herald, the Akron Beacon Journal, The Toledo Blade, the Dayton Daily News, the Zanesville Times Recorder, The Daily Astorian, the East Oregonian, the Medford Mail Tribune, the Portland Oregonian, The Eugene Register-Guard, the Salem Statesman Journal, The Coos Bay World, The Beaver County Times, The Bucks County Courier Times, the Wilkes-Barre
Citizen's Voice, The Doylestown Intelligencer, the Uniontown Herald-Standard, The Allentown Morning Call, the Washington Observer-Reporter, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Anderson Independent-Mail, The Myrtle Beach Sun News, The Memphis Commercial-Appeal, The Jackson Sun, Nashville Scene, The Tennessean,
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Voice, The Berkeleyan, ¡Berkemundo!, The Baytown Sun (11,374), the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Lone Star Iconoclast, the Longview News-Journal, The Lufkin Daily News, the Waco Tribune-Herald, the Bennington Banner, the Brattleboro Reformer, The Burlington Free Press, the Rutland Herald, The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, the Newport Daily Press, The Roanoke Times, The Virginian-Pilot, The Everett, The Olympian, The Tacoma News Tribune, The Bremerton Sun, the Tri-City Herald, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the Boston Phoenix, the Charleston Gazette, the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Howard Stern, the Madison Capital Times, The Green Bay News-Chronicle, the Racine Journal Times, the Kenosha News, the La Crosse Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Sheboygan Press, The Wausau Daily Herald, The Guardian, The Independent, the Paris Daily Snivel, Der Spiegel, Democracy Now. The Huffington Post, The Progressive Review, Alternet, Dissident Voice, AntiWar.com, Common Dreams, Truthout.org, MoveOn.org, TomPaine.com, Counterpunch, The People’s Kool-Aid, BlameBush!, Mother Jones, High Times, The Progressive, New Internationalist, Multinational Monitor, Covert Action Quarterly, The American Prospect, Dollars and Sense, The Progressive Populist, The Weekly Standard, New Left Review, Pacifica Radio, Progressive Mind, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, YouTube, Marvel Comics, The Weekly World News, Indymedia, DailyKos, Wonkette, DemocraticUnderground, The Prairie Home Companion, Coast to Coast with George Noory, Pravda, Granma, and Al Jazeera.
So much for that right-wing myth about the “liberal media!”
You forgot "Playgirl". And "Dawn", "The News", "Jang", "Nawa-i-Waqt", et cetera.
Posted by: Muslihoon | October 13, 2006 at 10:03 PM
Don't forget my blog!
Posted by: Vishnu Troll Daddy Earth Goddess | October 13, 2006 at 10:06 PM
Larry, the only problem with Air America was that they failed to get their message out. None of the ReichKKK-WingKKK MediaKKK you cited above printed not even one story (not one!) about Air America, before during or after they launched. Instead, they were too busy licking RushKKK LimbaughKKK's and the BushKKK KKKrimeKKK RegimeKKK's boots!
If the media would focus ONLY on Gay Republicans, and exhibit completely justified hatred of ALL Republicans and AmeriKKKa (like Air America has done), we could establish the DPRUSA, and force people to listen to it.
I'll bet then, their ratings would go up!
Posted by: Speaks Truth to Chimps | October 13, 2006 at 10:59 PM
What's gonna happen to Randi Rhodes? I'm sure going to miss that guy.
Posted by: Dodger | October 13, 2006 at 11:15 PM
"The Abortion Channel"
Ooh, I'm such a big fan of that. I can hardly even sleep for fear I'll miss an episode (I TIVO, then FF through it). Thank Evolution I'm on the Welfare or else I'd never be able to keep up. Abortions 24/7 like Evolution meant it to be!
Posted by: Speaks Truth to Chimps | October 13, 2006 at 11:20 PM
Thats a rather short list!
Posted by: jainphx | October 13, 2006 at 11:29 PM
I always suspected Highlights was an exercise in rightwing propaganda. (I'm pretty sure my childhood dentist was a post-war Nazi transplant to the US.)
I am surprised that Telemundo isn't on the list. I didn't think Bush's border wall was high enough to block the signal.
Posted by: Fist of Etiquette | October 14, 2006 at 05:46 AM
I always flew on Air Anerica, and now thanks to Dumbya, I will never get that chance again.
Posted by: Menstrual Rainbow | October 14, 2006 at 06:18 AM
Bu-shaitan's Body Count grows! Former progryssyve Rep. Gerry Studds, who was ahed of his time for Congressmen having consensual sex with teenage male pages, "died" today. He was clearly going to spill the beans on the whole malAdministration!
Posted by: Bubblehead | October 14, 2006 at 07:21 AM
I just noticed that the article I linked to above is titled (at least for now) "Former U.S.-Rep. Studds dies at 69". At least he died doing what he loved... although it must have been somewhat traumatic for whoever he was 69'ing with.
Posted by: Bubblehead | October 14, 2006 at 07:30 AM
I see the dark hand of zionism behind this. Jews control the ameriKKKan media and the sense of irony of this once great nation.
may gaia help us.
Posted by: Dave | October 14, 2006 at 07:35 AM
"What's gonna happen to Randi Rhodes?"
Didn't he die in a plane crash on tour with Ozzy in the 80s?
Posted by: Sean | October 14, 2006 at 07:51 AM
In light of this, we need to surrender in Iraq, gayer than hell Paree and here.
Posted by: UN Doctor | October 14, 2006 at 08:05 AM
BUSH KILLED MY HUSBAND! HE WAS A WONDERFUL MAN! HE BROUGHT HOME THE BACON AND UNDERAGED PAGES FOR US TO DEVOUR! NOW HE'S GONE!
Former U.S.-Rep. Studds Dies at 69
Oct 14, 10:21 AM (ET)
By JAY LINDSAY
BOSTON (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, several days after he collapsed while walking his dog, his husband said.
Posted by: Mrs. Studds | October 14, 2006 at 08:31 AM
You listed High Times twice, what are you high?
Posted by: RAT | October 14, 2006 at 08:49 AM
How many Left-wing bastions of freedom did you just cite?!
Posted by: Damian G. | October 14, 2006 at 09:33 AM
We've finally found a way to sieze back power. Fabio for President!
Posted by: Speaks Truth to Chimps | October 14, 2006 at 09:43 AM
As hate-monger Rush pointed out yesterday, AA failed because they didn't understand the competitive marketplace; just like progryssive economics when exposed to rapacious KKKapitalism everywhere. As the great scholar Kayne West might say "in the capitalist contextual context" Air America's bankrupcy validates the progryssive message. (The use of the three words beginning with hard "c" pronounced "k" is designed to trigger an autonomic compliance reflex in the reptilian neoKKKon brain.)
Like the Katrina geneocide victims, AA is a victim of the KKKorporatist hegemony that rules the media. Justice demands they be given the same government funding as their sister network NPR at least until a Democrat can be elected to the presidency.
Posted by: RWing Nut | October 14, 2006 at 09:50 AM
'Don't forget my blog'?
Don't forget my bong!
SoS
Posted by: Son of the South © | October 14, 2006 at 09:53 AM
"AA failed because they didn't understand the competitive marketplace"
No AA didn't fail, the marketplace did. It's time that (non) listeners took responsibility for their crime.
Posted by: Menstrual Rainbow | October 14, 2006 at 11:06 AM
You forgot The San Antonio Express&News
Posted by: unkawill | October 14, 2006 at 11:43 AM
The Utica Observer-Dispatch has only printed three articles on favor of Hillary *this* month. If that isn't right wing bias I don't know what is.
Posted by: DoubleU | October 14, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Lar, you forgot MSNBC.
It's disgusting how the reich-wing Rethuglikkkan kkkonservatives have attempted to influence the media through FOX News. If it wasn't for the other news entities Larry identified, Rethugs would be riding roughshod over us. Why we might have been rounded up by Bu$Hilter's SS black helicopter stormtroopers and sent to GITMO to be forced fed until our arteries clogged up and we died!
Posted by: libmeister | October 14, 2006 at 12:23 PM
MR Rainbow wrote "AA didn't fail, the marketplace did" Exactly my point. The marketplace is rigged so that only a KKKapitalist can succeed. In the unlikely event that AA had shown a profit outside the generous contribution of the NY Boys and Girls Club, the Bush crime family would have recognized them as fellow criminals and coopted them with tax cuts, just like they did the wealthest 1%. We progryssves are all about praising the failures of those who agree with us and compensating them as victims, that's why AA must be saved with government grants.
But chin up little buckeroos, if AA is replaced by something people listen to, the off-air workers won't loose pension or medical benefits.
Posted by: RWing Nut | October 14, 2006 at 12:34 PM
What the Hell is "The Weekly Standard" doing on that list? I sometimes read an article before I steal all their issues and burn them.
Sometimes they say really mean things about us progressyves.
Posted by: DonkeyDick | October 14, 2006 at 12:53 PM