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Media Bias - Air America vs. Poor Kids

Media Bias - Air America vs. Poor Kids

Apparently no one would want to hear about this story.

     Update : There appear to be some folks reading this who think that this article is critical of Air America Radio... it is NOT! AAR may not be the most smoothly run business in the world but that is not the heart of the issue. The issue here is the complete lack of any reporting on this from the MSM. Had this been EIB and the Boy Scouts as suggeted in the commentary discussion the MSM would have been on it like stink on shit regardless of when the funding was done or if the idiot responsible had already been fired. I will admit that the headline to the article is a bit sensational but oh well... sure me:)

     For those who have not heard about it elsewhere Air America (a very liberal leaning talk radio network headlined by Al Franken and Garofalo) was caught a few weeks ago in a financial scandal in which it received just under $1 million that was intended for needy children (this was money diverted as "loans" from a charity by political supporters with pull in said charity).

     Of course the MSM has little interest in publishing this sort of story (lets prentend this was Rush Limbaugh's EIB network for a sec shall we? Think that might have garnered a headline or two?) and this is being documented over at the Captain's Quarters blog here. Check out his scoreboard and then [please come back and tell me how the right wing has taken over media... no really... I am dying to hear the theory.

 

I only point this out so that you won't think that all I do nowadays is Guardrail poetry.

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Reply #26 Top

aar, on the other hand, is hardly a household fixture

Hmm i wonder how the number of article in the NYT at AAR launch compares to this coverage? Hmm a quick search without even having acces to the subscriber only bits gives me 16 articles concerning AAR prior to this little kerfuffle and now there is but 1... with a correction but I skipped counting the corrections in mine so I will skip their correction on the new issue as well.

 

16 to 1 hmmmm....

I bet the headlines would make interesting reading?

Reply #27 Top

aar, on the other hand, is hardly a household fixture

Hmmm.....Seems to me I am constantly being told about how AAR is number one with a Bullet, except when there is a scandal involved, and then no one knows about them.

Perhaps this is a cart before the horse scenerio?  As in, the left only wishes no one had heard about them whent hey are involved in scandal, but based upon the number of responses, it would appear that is just a pipe dream.

Reply #28 Top
and here I thought Garafalo and Franken WERE just a couple of little kids who just need a million or so to exist comfortably in their poverty. So where's the scandal? ;~D
Reply #29 Top

and here I thought Garafalo and Franken WERE just a couple of little kids who just need a million or so to exist comfortably in their poverty. So where's the scandal? ;~D

They wont let all the other kids in to play.