Reply #264: Blah, Blah, Blah

[Felinity]

First of all, there's a mighty big "IF" in your assessment. Perhaps you'd like to back that up with some stats.

Next, Air America has made a series of programming decisions based upon ?? what exactly I'm not sure, but my assessment (though lacking in data) is that they are going for short-term results instead of deciding who they want to be and taking a stand--and in the long run, bringing a larger, stronger audience around to them. In the long run, they will fail with this option, just as the Democrats may very well fail in 2008 by going with Hilary Clinton. When you disenfranchise your base of true believers (Mike Malloy's audience, per se) they will turn away or turn on you. That is what you are reading above.

The problem is, when you are supposed to be representing the higher, more intellectually crafted, more humanistic point of view; it would behoove the AAR organization to walk its talk, so to speak.

Here is some selected text from emails I have sent to AAR in the past. I stopped trying to communicate with them, as they never have seen fit to reply, even when I was offering to help promote them.:

--This was in response to the stupid pop-up ads that they abuse their streaming listeners with-- "I have been an avid Air America listener for about 3 years, and cannot afford, nor can I condone, the latest 'pay for access' philosophy of your premium listener program. So how much money would it cost me to be able to stream your radio, all day, with audio commercials only. Maybe I could spare you a few bucks . . ."

--This was part of my response to the Air America Premium Program--: "I’m beginning to feel about Air America the way I’ve felt about our political system for some time now: disenfranchised and powerless. I don’t need radio to help me get in touch with those feelings; the Bush administration does the job quite nicely."

Just like the Democrats, if you try to beat your opponent at the same game by becoming more like them, sinking to their level, you have already lost.

Take a tip from Karl: never disenfranchise your base.

(Edit to correct use of brackets)