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Originally Posted by Intense1
Sorry, Will, but I believe that the only reason that Air America didn't survive is that not enough people were willing to fork over the bucks to support it.
I mean, aren't there enough celebs in Hollywood who are mega millionaires who could slip some bucks toward Air America to keep it viable? Why didn't they? Is it because they knew it was a lost cause?
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I belive that you're totally mistaken. Fox News and the Wash Times didn't survive because of celebrity donations, their corporate masters simply decided to pour money into them as an investment in control. Why would Goerge Cloony or Jessica Alba care about a liberal radio station? Answer? They wouldn't. It's not an investment for them at all. Their money goes into one of a few things: lifestyle, lifestyle, or lifestyle. Their ability to make money revolves around their ability to be bankable stars. I'm not sure where you get the idea that hollywood stars would fund a radiostation. What I was hinting at was that there are huge conservative pockets that fund conservative media, but there is no equilibrium at the liberal side of the spectrum. There is no liberal Murdoch pouring money into Olbermann or Stewart.
If Fox News would have been liberal, or if the conservatives didn't have the murdoch fortune, Fox News would have dies in a year or two, and Bush would have lost in 2004.