Interesting article on RW radio in the Aug 11 New Yorker...

"Radio Daze", by Hendrick Hertzberg.

"...Right Wing radio is niche entertainment for the spiritually unattractive. It succeeds becasuse a substantial segment of the right-wing rank and file enjoys listening, hour after hour, as smug, angry, disdainful middle-aged men spew raw contempt at reified enemies, named and unnamed..."

Can't find a link on the New Yorker website, but for those of you still using non-digital reading matter (i.e. paper), it's worth a browse.

It also mentionss the "AnShell" media company. This Canuck isn't familiar with AnShell, but it appears they are in the midst of raising venture capital for a network of "liberal" media outlets. They are based out of Chicago. Any DUers know anything about AnShell?

I'm sooo into investing in this...

at the center

see this article at TomPaine.com:

Liberalize the Media, by Joe Bevilacqua

"The media is kind of weird these days on politics," former Vice President Al Gore is quoted as saying in the June 30, 2003 issue of Time Magazine. "There are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party."

"Fox News Network, The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh -- there's a bunch of them," Gore continued, "and some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations and the rest of the media."

The Time article revealed Gore's desire to start a liberal cable TV network, something already in the works on the radio side.

AnShell Media, led by Anita and Sheldon Drobny, is an investor group who have financially supported Democratic candidates. Investing $10 million to seed a liberal radio network with Saturday Night Live alumnus Al Franken as its centerpiece, AnShell hopes to counter the influence of Right-wingers such as Limbaugh.

"We have a media landscape in the United States today that is unbalanced," says AnShell Media CEO Jon Sinton. "It's actually disgraceful. It's a very difficult and hostile landscape for a Progressive, Moderate, Liberal or anything but fire-breathing, reactionary Right-wing talk host to get clearance on." . . .

Is there any way to buy stock in this thing?

Who has info on this?

Thanks for posting! This was yet another great Hertzberg column.

If anyone has any contact info for AnShell, can you please PM me with it? I'm only on DU on the weekends now, so I miss most of what's going on.

Maybe someone here can start a PayPal account to buy collective shares in AnShell? I don't know how that works, but I'm sure it's possible...

TERRIBLE website - maybe someone can help them with this.


http://anshellmedia.com/anshell_home.htm

At this time those interested in investing in Anshellmedia and reviewing our private placement memorandum should e-mail us at:

investor_relations@anshellmedia.com

I read an article a month or so ago that stated that AnShell was also looking at Mike Mallor as an anchor host.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?030811ta_talk_hertzberg

remember, google is your friend. :-)

They are aiming to be very entertaining, as well as liberal. More info at:

www.anshellmedia.com