Air America yanked off the air, makes violent threats.
 

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It looks like Air America may not be on the air much longer if they can't (or won't) pay their bills. Why not just leave the liberal talk-radio market to NPR? Responding with threats of physical violence, tongue-in-cheek or not, is something that I see as a sign of desperation.

"... and now owes it more than one million dollars"

I don't know much about the radio industry, but I don't believe that two weeks on two AM stations would cost a million dollars.

/ shifts over to TFP Paranoia

I think that right-wingers got to the station owners and asked them to cause trouble. Doesn't matter if it gets resolved the next day; it is the initial headlines that make Air America look bad.

Re: Air America yanked off the air, makes violent threats.
 

Because NPR is a rather centrist news organization that looks left-wing when compared to radio people way there like Rush. The same thing is happening to John Mccain, he is a "regular republican" who look left compared to neo cons.

McCarthy was a pinko compared to Hitler...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...equestid=12093

Also O'Franken's Reaction:
http://www.airamericaradio.com/pub/resNews.htm
Air america isn't going to default on their bank loans in the first two damned weeks.
The bastard at Multicultural wanted to make more money and AirAmerica would not let him exploit them. So they pulled their funding. AA set records in online streaming. There will be plenty of stations willing to pick them up. In the mean time AA gets more publicity, and will end up with a fat settlement from Multicultural for breach of contract.

And... Air America Back on Radio.

I am amazed how quickly the conservative press got the "spun" story out there. As you can probably see from the judge's actions, Air America is the one who is getting scammed, not there other way around.

You've been scammed by conservative spin-meisters, Seretogis. I'm surprised they got their version of the story syndicated through the AP. Kinda scary.

damned liberal media bias...

So, if the AP reports something that's "anti-liberal" it's the conservatives fault but if they report something "anti-conservative" they're unbiased. I got it. I'm also amazed how quickly this thread went to the "conservative conspiracy" theory as well.

I'll bet you Bush did it. He does have that all powerful button on his desk that controls all manner of things.

The simple fact is, there was a plethora of promotion around this radio launch and anything with that level of hype is a target should any little hiccup occur. It's not a big conspiracy, it's just one method the media uses to garner ratings.

The distinction you aren't making is this story turned out to be B.S. once the facts caught up to the spin cycle.

HR seemed to be commenting on the conservative media's power to disseminate an unvetted story--not accuse the entire industry of possessing conservative bias.

News organizations jumping on a story before it's vetted is nothing new and immediately jumping to the conclusion that it was a conservative conspiracy is ridiculous.

I'm glad you agree--now stop saying it was a consipiracy.

All that was said was that conservative sources had pumped disinformation into the spin-cycle, and the mainstream press took off with it. That's a testament to the conservative media sector's power to disseminate information, truthful or not.

Accusations of any kind of conspiracy were your words, not mine, superbelt's, or HR's.

Media stories don't sprout out of this air--someone reports them. In this case, someone reported false information and it eventually made it into mainstream media, which superbelt, HR, and myself have repeatedly asserted is corporate controlled moreso than "right" or "left" in ideology.

This:

and this:

are accusations of a conspiracy.

onetime2: You will note that my quote was preceeded by , and that was intentional.

My bad I misunderstood the reference. I thought it applied to the previous paragraph since "/" whatever is typically at the end of the code.

Hrm. Yes, I suppose so. Pretend I got it right. :o

If Harmless was accusing the mainstream media of conspiring with conservative spinmeisters, why would he state that he was "surprised" the story made it out on the wires.

I think you need to re-think your position on this. You've misread two posts now because of what you believe left leaning people are wont to do--not based on what they actually typed and meant.

When I explained the meaning behind HR's post, you didn't accept that as a valid response, but insisted that we are insinuating conspiracies in the mainstream press.

I think it would be more conducive to discussion to accept one's clarification instead of persisting in telling people what they meant.

I misread one post that appeared to be in a generally accepted/traditional message board format but was in fact used the opposite way.

The last line in your post is quite fitting and I agree wholeheartedly. Please keep it in mind.

In reference to HR's post I did not say there was a conspiracy between the "mainstream" media and the "conservative spinmeisters" I said that the implication by him is that the sole reason the story spread was through the conspiring of conservative spinmeisters. I then offered the most likely reason that the story spread. That reason is media's desire to play off events that have high levels of hype.

So we're agreed the version of the story as quoted by seretogis was an overhyped misrepresentation of what actually happened? Good. Time to move on.

David Goodfriend is a top name for a attorney! I wonder if its real.

:)