SOMETHING NEW ON THE DIAL

We welcome Air America, the new liberal radio network, which was up and talking on March 31. It boasts a lineup of gifted and witty hosts, including Al Franken, Katherine Lanpher, Marc Maron, Lizz Winstead, Chuck D, Janeane Garofalo, Laura Flanders, Robert Kennedy Jr. and others who will offer humor, satire, guests and commentary on stations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Air America will challenge the notion that liberals can't do talk-radio. The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum. But the people behind Air America believe--and have invested their money in the proposition--that a main reason for the dearth of liberal views is lack of choice. Build a viable commercial network of liberal programming, they say, and the public will come. With the marketplace of ideas so skewed in this country, democratic dialogue is in jeopardy. Tune in.

KUDOS TO DANTO

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