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The Propaganda of Omission

Posted on | January 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

“When the liberal radio network Air America debuted on March 31, 2004, NBC trumpeted it as the ‘counterweight’ to the ‘right-wing bent’ of talk radio. Katie Couric enthused that Al Franken and his colleagues hoped ‘to break into what has been a conservative lock on the radio.’ However, when the beleaguered Air America announced bankruptcy on Thursday, both the Nightly News and Friday’s Today skipped the story.”
— Scott Whitlock, Newsbusters

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Category: Media Bias, NBC

Comments

12 Responses to “The Propaganda of Omission”

  1. Rich Fader
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

    Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.

  2. Rich Fader
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

    Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.

  3. Miss Sharon
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 2:14 am

    No one was listening any.way.

  4. Miss Sharon
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

    No one was listening any.way.

  5. Joe
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 2:24 am

    Air America’s problem was the market was saturated with liberal talk on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AP, Reuters, NYT, scores of liberal rags, and of course NPR on the radio. And it was boring. Did you ever listen to it? It really really did suck–not just on policy but it was boring, sloppy, and poorly done.

    I like NPR occasionally. Like PJ O’Rourke says, you have to get out of the conservative bubble occasionally if only to understand where they are coming from. But Air America never even foot that bill–frankly I would prefer to listen to Pacifica or some hippie college station.

  6. Joe
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 9:24 pm

    Air America’s problem was the market was saturated with liberal talk on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AP, Reuters, NYT, scores of liberal rags, and of course NPR on the radio. And it was boring. Did you ever listen to it? It really really did suck–not just on policy but it was boring, sloppy, and poorly done.

    I like NPR occasionally. Like PJ O’Rourke says, you have to get out of the conservative bubble occasionally if only to understand where they are coming from. But Air America never even foot that bill–frankly I would prefer to listen to Pacifica or some hippie college station.

  7. Charles Johnson
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 3:43 am

    Heads will roll for this monstrosity! The New York Times is banned from LGF.

  8. Charles Johnson
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:43 pm

    Heads will roll for this monstrosity! The New York Times is banned from LGF.

  9. Blacque Jacques Shellacque
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 6:51 am

    Katie Couric enthused that Al Franken and his colleagues hoped ‘to break into what has been a conservative lock on the radio.’

    It’s a shame that Al Franken couldn’t have been there at the end to finally get sucked down the drain along with his network.

  10. Blacque Jacques Shellacque
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 1:51 am

    Katie Couric enthused that Al Franken and his colleagues hoped ‘to break into what has been a conservative lock on the radio.’

    It’s a shame that Al Franken couldn’t have been there at the end to finally get sucked down the drain along with his network.

  11. Micha Elyi
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 9:27 am

    Smaller audience than Conan O’Brien’s.

  12. Micha Elyi
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 4:27 am

    Smaller audience than Conan O’Brien’s.