The Right might want to hold off on gloating over Air America's demise

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001210045

The Right might want to hold off on gloating over Air America's demise

January 21, 2010 5:46 pm ET by Jamison Foser


With today's announcement that Air America is shutting down, I'm sure it'll only be a matter of minutes before conservatives start gleefully insisting that this demonstrates that there is no market for liberal news outlets.

Two quick points to keep in mind:

1) You can either claim that ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/NPR/NYT/WAPO/ETC are "liberal media," or that there is no market for liberal media -- but not both. Please pick one.* Thanks!

2) The Washington Times has been losing money for two decades. In the early days of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch paid cable companies $11 per subscriber to carry FNC (and Rudy Giuliani pressured Time Warner to carry the outlet in New York City.) Point being: conservative media outlets have succeeded not only because of market forces, as conservatives would have you believe, but because right-wing billionaires like Murdoch and Rev. Moon have been willing to subsidize them.

* Or neither. That works, too.

[AndyA]

1. This would require logic. Something the Right is totally lacking.

But they could serve you up a big ole steaming bowl of hypocrisy!

[tanyev]

2. I tried listening to Air America when it was available in North Texas,

but I just don't like talk radio, no matter who's talking. Interwebs for me.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. I just hope Ron Reagan gets back on the air soon

And Ring of Fire on the weekends. Other than that, there really wasn't anything else left worth saving.

The real Air America died when that piece of shit Mark Green took over and immediately stabbed Mike Malloy in the back.

[GreenTea]

4. Republicans can't have it both ways....but they always ponticate it both ways the lying assholes!

[rhett o rick]

5. k & r

[bbinacan]

6. To be fair,

Air America had some pretty damn deep pockets keeping them going.

[LaPera]

7. AAR went on the air on March 31, 2004 - Just about six years ago. I'll miss them.

[RagAss]

8. WBAI ...New York, New York.