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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Hank Roth wrote:
> From: PEGGY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> AIR AMERICA is the only progressive one on radio, however. I really do
> not like Randi Rhodes at all--she gets on my nerves, but I am very fond
> of Al Franken as a good progressive voice.--Peggy
>
You call it progressive. I'll call it rant radio. I just listened to a
recording (download) of newsweek's weekly audiocast *. Johnny Alter is a
correspondant with Newsweek and has a segment. He is also a regular
participant on the Al Franken radio show. He is not exactly left, but I
would categorize him as seemingly fair and balanced. He doesn't express
his personal politics so much as he provides an analysis. Most on the
audiocast do the same. Well, it is a reflection of the magazine which is
more center-left of the three weekly news magazines which include U.S.
News, which is center-right, and Time magazine, which is center-center.
The point is, you get a more honest analysis from Newsweek than you do
from Air America. It doesn't matter where you are, what is
counter-productive is rant radio; Left or Right. I like Malloy, but he,
like Rhodes are so strident with no limits on ad hominims that they
are not going to be taken seriously by anyone outside their own narrow
audience -- and in spite of fluctuations in the ratings, which are up and
down and up again are of more entertainment value than they are for
proselytizing to the undecided.
If you want angry answers with radical choices, join a vanguard and read
their publication. You can join the Sparts and you will get a more
intellectual version of Mike Malloy and admittedly my favorite. There is
also Workers World which is 4th International socialism and there is also
among many others, the old, old CP and their Weekly World publication,
which during the height of socialist interest was a daily. Look for them.
Books too are helpful. If you just want news, check out Newsweek ---
or on PRI the To The Point and Right, Left and Center audiocasts. They are
both excellent. The best lecture series are always on Unwanted Guests and
TUC radio. And there are ongoing feeds of Left Radio and new radio hosts
are entering the market all the time but liberal is never going to be as
popular as conservative rant because of the basic flaw in human nature.
AAR offers only one alternative and they seem to be trying to screw it up.
I hope Seder and Malloy eventually find their own syndication outside of
Air America. I think it might happen (maybe sooner than later).
* (I prefer audio-cast to the term podcast because it is a more accurate
description of audio files that you can listen to on your computer. And
they do not need to be mp3s.)
Hank
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