and your absurd use of the term “racist” is infinitely more tired than the “shreiks and rants” you claim are on the network all day - (apparently you don’t listen to it, or you’d know that isn’t the case.) Franken has had such “shreiking and ranting” guests as Bob Woodward, Bill Maher, Walter Cronkite, Helen Thomas, Jon Stewart, Al Gore, Richard Ben-Veniste, etc etc etc. not exactly lefty shreikers.

i hope you’ll find an original thought in the future.

Anyway, David is right, since I originally posted this, they’ve added pictures on the homepage of every one of the co-hosts, so Chuck now gets his due.

Thanks in part to Bruner Blog? Who knows. I did send them an email about it earlier than then also sent them a URL to this post, so maybe. I’ll take the point, anyway.

i am not an american citizen, so my opinions are alomost non partisan. I cried for your country when 9/11 happened, unfortunately I supported the Gulf war -2( I belived in Bush). having said that, Air America is a necessary evil to counter the ultra powerful right wing radio. I for one, want my news fair and straight. i hate in when the networks and radio channels “HIGHLIGHT” only some parts of the news based on their respective agendas. for example, just yesterday if you followed the news, Marines attacked a mosque as Iraqui fighters are using it as shield. Apparently, the marines attacked it at a wrong hour, when it is full of civilians who gathered for evening prayers. now, Fox news channel did not mention the death of any civilians. NONE. while the arab channels showed only the deaths of civilians and cried that marines attacked a peaceful crowd of civilians. Both the accounts are accurate, in the sense that no one was lieing abt anything, but just highlighting the stuff that suits them. if it happens in some remote fundamentalistic regimes, i wouldn’t have cared. But, come on, this is america. we can and should do better than this.

Ok, I am sorry. I digressed. I am supposed to talk abt talk radio. I was talking abt the whole media. Its a known fact that talk radio is dominated by the right wing. It reached such a dangerous proportion that the administration is using it as a propaganda machine. I mean, howelse can one explain the fact that the Vice President appears on Rush Limbaugh’s show to defend themselves agaist Dick Clarke. When Mr.clarke is facing the comission, answering their grilling bitter questions, Mr.Cheney is basking in the warmth of a die hard supporter who asks only the kind of pleasing questions and makes Clarke look like a liar. Inexcusable !!!!!

Ok, So, the hollywood respomds to this threat from the right wing radio by floating their own station. But, it looks to me like, other than Mr.Franken, there is no star power to the channel. I think, they have to do some serious PR stuff to take this channel to the masses. college kids listening to it online and the five metros are simply not sufficient to spread the message. After that, the format of the shows has to change. stop giggling at your own jokes, let the guests finish their sentences and please bring someone on the right also to respond to your allegations. Randi, you have to be more coherent. stop saying ” forget that”, ” i am so mad i dont want to talk” etc. you should know this is radio and we can not see ur facial expressions. so you have to use your moouth properly to convey the message.

phew, thats a long message. hope someone read it completely.

As a radio person, I was really looking forward to listening to it. On the morning show I heard an interview with Sandy Burger that just droned on and on.

I think it would almost be better to have an enlightened DJ type of show - news and music - because there is too much blah blah and it’s not so riveting.

Having said all that, I think it’s great that at least something new has sprouted. Whether it has a chance in hades of surviving remains to be seen.