Salon/Guardian/Air America/ MoveOn to announce partnering.

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!

Gotta love it.

SNIP...."Salon has also agreed to the first trans-Atlantic media partnership of its kind with The Guardian of London. "Salon and The Guardian will exchange news stories daily to be posted on each others' Web sites. The Guardian has 8.5 million monthly Web readers, including 2 million in the U.S," the memo states....."

Count the millions. :D

otherwise, ahhhh! That'd be a nice wagon to hitch yerself to.

(readies ridiculous but strangely nonfictional resume)

Sounds like a very timely plan. And we need all the voices we can get out there.

I don't think I have heard. I just joined Salon. I know Horowitz is there, but I think he won't be happy with the new arrangement. Perhaps he will go far far away!

http://hightower.fmp.com/weblogitem.php?id=929

SNIP...."March 3, 2004
New York Post
By JOHN MAINELLI


The long talked-about liberal talk radio network has finally found an affiliate in New York - WLIB-AM, The Post has learned. 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.

SNIP..."The line-up will pit the new network's talkers directly against the biggest names in radio. Franken is expected to air at noon and go toe-to-toe with Rush Limbaugh, who has a 15 million-listener head start......"

This sounds wonderful. Gives me goosebumps.

me too!

Real hope.

Vote.:-)

http://www.ctnow.com/entertainment/tv/hc-liberalradio.artmar08,1,2278063.story?coll=hc-headlines-tv

SNIP..."The new network was conceived more than a year ago as a way to get liberal voices on radio airwaves dominated by conservative talk shows like Rush Limbaugh's syndicated program, heard on about 600 stations. It prompted a flurry of media attention but has encountered bumps in its development.

In December, the original owners, Chicagoans Sheldon and Anita Drobney, sold their venture to investors, including Walsh and Evan Cohen, a New York venture capitalist. The new team has announced the signing of several on-air talents, including Franken and Lizz Winstead, one of the creators of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," but has run into difficulty acquiring stations.....".

and Blumenthal as head!

Fearless!?

Happy that is. There were others working with this new progressive radio, but I can't remember who they were. I love it.

There has to be some alternative to the 24/7 Bush gushing on cable. From where I am you can't get anything liberal from any media source. Damn I am hungry to here are side of the argument out there on the air waves!

Here in Bakersfield, CA we have 3 god damned conservative AM stations ands we aren't a big town!

Other than those two, you're SOL.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0619-11.htm
This article is from 2003. Mentions the radio briefly, but also a cable station.

SNIP...."As Time magazine reported, Gore has met with Hollywood power brokers and potential financial backers.

The plan, it seems, is to launch a station that could compete with Rupert Murdoch's conservative Fox News Channel, the cable station that beat CNN in the Iraq ratings game by waving flags and excoriating all things anti-war.

The magazine also reported that Gore has been acting as a conduit between high-profile liberal commentators and Sheldon and Anita Drobny, the Chicago venture capitalists who announced plans to fund a progressive radio network that would act as a tonic to the conservative elixirs served up by Rush Limbaugh and other idiots..."

Isn't it sad we have to make our own news to get the truth?

We have loads of bible-thumpers..we have loads of spanish language programming, and then we have the conservative blowhards.. That's pretty much IT..

Do they really care how many listerners they have?? Probably not.. All they care about is that they are hogging all the microphones and no one else can broadcast.. THAT'S what it's about ..Agenda..

I always considered Salon.com centrist, but maybe they are taking a liberal turn under new ownership.

I think you are right.

then they aren't doing enough. Sure, anything is better than nothing, but we need a real fighter like Mike on the air.

a shot....I know many who feel the same way, Malloy is the best and a true motivator for liberal progressive democratic thinking!!!

that douchebag David Horowitz? I can't see him staying.

with having that asshole around...for what balance? Fascist lies is more accurate concerning Horowitz or any republican.

I think Salon realized that the like of Mr. Horowitz certainly aren't suffering for a lack of other forums.

Friends, I've gotta think this is journalism worthing anteing up for:

<snip>

Salon '04: Unembedded, unintimidated
Introducing Salon's new Washington bureau, led by Sidney Blumenthal, just in time for the presidential election.

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March 10, 2004 | The presidential campaign is already heating up, and so is Salon. I'm excited to announce that beginning this week Salon is rolling out a series of new editorial initiatives that will propel our political and news coverage to a new level. First of all, Salon is opening a Washington bureau under the direction of veteran political journalist Sidney Blumenthal, whose bestselling account of his days as a senior aide to President Clinton, "The Clinton Wars," was serialized by Salon last year.

"The country wants and needs unintimidated news," says Blumenthal. "The Bush administration has put enormous political pressure on the press not to probe its radical policies and their consequences. Salon intends to be fearless." Under Blumenthal's leadership, Salon's new Washington bureau will produce a flow of revealing stories about the Bush administration and the election.

On Wednesday Salon is running "The New Pentagon Papers," an exclusive, eyewitness account of how Bush officials inside the Defense Department twisted intelligence in the rush to the Iraq war. The author of the article, Karen Kwiatkowski, is a retired lieutenant colonel formerly assigned to the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon. In her extraordinary 5,500-word account, Kwiatkowski writes: "I saw a narrow and deeply flawed policy favored by some executive appointees in the Pentagon used to manipulate and pressurize the traditional relationship between policymakers in the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to the Congress. I observed how the distorted intelligence and sharpened political talking points were funneled to the Office of Vice President Cheney."

On Thursday, Salon will publish the first of several advance excerpts from "House of Bush, House of Saud," a new book by Craig Unger that explores the relationship between the two dynasties, whose explosive contents have been embargoed. In the first installment, Unger, who has written for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, will expose shocking new details on the flights approved by the Bush White House that carried members of the bin Laden family and other prominent Saudis out of the U.S. to Saudi Arabia after Sept. 11. Salon will publish for the first time the manifest of the passenger list and identify one passenger as a suspected al-Qaida funder who was aware ahead of time of the Sept. 11 attack.

And on Friday, Salon will publish an exclusive report on the Texas investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his political operatives that reporter Lou Dubose (co-author of "Shrub" and "Boy Genius") believes may send some of them to prison, shaking up Texas and national politics.

</snip>

There is a big difference there already. :hi:

"they drew first blood"

and

"I'm comin' after you, Murdoch"