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Times Still Ignoring Air America Woes

Air America is undertaking layoffs and may file for bankruptcy, but the Times is apparently only interested in doing positive PR for the left-wing radio network.
By
Clay Waters
September 15, 2006 - 1:07pm

Strangely, Richard Siklos' Friday Business article [1]about declining audiences for various radio formats contains no reference to one particular niche that's been really hard hit lately: Left-wing talk radio. Two days after the news broke at the left-wing websiteThinkProgress [2], The Times has yet to make a mention of the layoffs, paycheck problems, and rumors of impending bankruptcy at Air America, the foundering left-wing radio network [3].


The Times has made a habit of ignoring bad news [4]about Air America (like its "borrowing" of $800,000 from a Bronx boys and girls club), although it trumpeted the network's debut with a huge cover story on Al Franken [5] in its magazine.


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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/business/media/15radio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
[2] http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/13/air-america-bankruptcy/
[3] http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060915/LIFE/609150343/1005
[4] http://www.timeswatch.org/twarticles/2005/20050818.asp
[5] http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2005/col20050817.asp
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/10
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/timeswatch
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/richardsiklos
[9] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/talkradio
[10] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/bankruptcy
[11] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/alfranken
[12] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/airamerica
[13] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newyorktimes
[14] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/nytimes
[15] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatch
[16] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatchorg
[17] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org