{"id":1360,"date":"2010-01-25T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/r-i-p-air-america.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:32:13","slug":"rip-air-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/rip-air-america.html","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Air America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/jmbell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rachel-maddow1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/jmbell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/rachel-maddow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The lone talk-radio network on the left of the dial is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/21\/AR2010012103868.html\">signing off for good today<\/a>.  Air America has struggled financially since its inception as a liberal alternative to the Conservative ranting of Clear Channel, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News Radio.  But it seems that lefties don&#8217;t listen to talk radio.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious about the implication of this for radio&#8217;s demographics.  Does this mean that liberals listen to music stations, or is it they just don&#8217;t do terrestrial radio?  Maybe, given the popularity of Fox News on cable TV, Conservatives are just more plugged in to broadcast media in general.  I don&#8217;t know.  But it does seem a shame that we&#8217;ve lost the solitary balancing voice on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Air America can credit itself with launching the careers of Al Franken, Ana Marie Cox, and my personal favorite Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good run, but all good things must come to an end.  Which maybe explains why Limbaugh and Beck will be on the radio forever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lone talk-radio network on the left of the dial is signing off for good today. Air America has struggled<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/rip-air-america.html\" title=\"Read R.I.P. Air America\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}