Why Air America Failed
The liberal attempt to counter Rush Limbaugh on the airwaves was too little, too late.
Illustration by Trevor Davis.
The national talk-radio network Air America was founded on a can’t-miss premise: progressive mass media didn’t yet exist but should. The year was 2004. George W. Bush was president, and his administration of neocons had lied and bullied America into a monstrous war in Iraq. Meanwhile, right-wing media increasingly looked like a license to print […]
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