Guardian UK/Salon/Air America/MoveOn are partnering. I love it.

This is just plain exciting!
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert152.shtml

SNIP...."NEW YORK, March 9, 2004 -- Salon.com will announce this week a series of ambitious editorial initiatives, including the opening of a new Washington D.C. news bureau as well as strategic partnerships with MoveOn.org, The Guardian of London and the new progressive radio network, Air America, MediaChannel has learned from a memo sent to Salon board members.

The Website, which bills itself as "the largest independent news organization in the country" will make the announcement via an email to MoveOn.org's 2-million plus members, according to the memo sent yesterday by Salon editor and founder David Talbot.

"The Web has come of age this campaign season as a political news medium and Salon is well positioned to be a leading player in the election year's round-the-clock news cycle," Talbot states in the memo......."

SNIP...."Blumenthal will spearhead the Website's newest editorial initiatives. "The Bush administration has put enormous political pressure on the press not to probe its radical policies and their consequences," Bumenthal states in the memo. "Salon intends to be fearless."

This is a wonderful happening!

Also here is more about Air America which will start later this month or first of April.
http://hightower.fmp.com/weblogitem.php?id=929

SNIP..."Air America, as the network will be known, is also expected to announce that outspoken comedian Janeane Garofalo will join pit-bull humorist Al Franken in its line-up.

The network could be up and running later this month or early April.

Backers of the network are eager to get on the air as quickly as possible in order to play a role in the upcoming presidential elections.

WLIB (1190 AM) currently mixes Caribbean music with black-targeted talk shows after budget cuts forced it to drop its all-talk format three years ago. Air America and its parent, Progress Media, just moved onto a floor shared by WLIB and sister station WBLS at 3 Park Ave......"

Just dashed off a letter to the editor saying that it more than made up for the price of a subscription. (And I've been a subscriber for several years.)

Salon has had its ups and downs since it's inception but it's been a great, great resource.

Very cool.

eileen from OH

I belong to MoveOn, and have for ages. This could be a start of something important.

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I love it. Take back the media. I subscribe to Salon and I've been a MoveOn member since the Clinton impeachment days. I want my Air America. We need it. And we get our European coverage with The Guardian. What a team.

I think DU needs to get partnered in there as well. We are part of the large independent new media.

Sonia

:thumbsup:

That is good. :D

Where? I didn't see us mentioned in there.. :)

I wish they would contact us, we have been fighting like hell..

good combos

You would be a great addition!
Good luck.

Thank you.

It was to be subscription only. I was going to sign on. What happened?

But it is a paper for which I'll gladly pay.

Salon, though, errr - I know they're on hard times, so I'll read them for half up front and the rest when they're profitable. ;-)

Then look at a 15-sec or less ad, and you're in for 24 hours, AND Salon gets a buck or two from the advertiser.

will wait to see what the moveon email says.


Cher

They have overplayed their hand. They coulda taken a huge part of the pie and left it at that, but they wanted it all. Now, liberal sources from all corners are coming together. Even Stern is railing about the RW stranglehold on news/inFo and entertainment. I love all of the orgainizations mentioned in this argicle and will support them. Citizens everywhere will follow, and so won't artists/entertainers when there is an alternative. I have never donated as much money as I have in the last year to causes I believe in. I have never boycotted the products with evil roots like I do now.

Go Guardian
Go MoveOn
Go Salon

Fuck fOX
fUCK Clear Channel
FUCK BUSH

Americans aren't stupid - their new sources have just been censored.

Once we get some real news again, we'll smarten back up.

This has been a great week!

This ends a year of speculation about whether Franken would jump into radio. “Our long national nightmare is over,” said Franken. “I’ve signed.        

“My first priority is to get sued by a right wing jerk in order to generate interest in my new show, The O’Franken Factor,” Franken said.  Our hope is to do drug-free talk radio, although I understand it’s never been done.

http://www.centralairmedia.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=38

My hope is that one day Blumenthal will see Drudge disintegrate into nothingness where he belongs:evilgrin: