A Liberal Controlled Media?
So I ask you to tell me know that the media is controlled by left leaning Liberals. Would you like the REAL reason that Air America Radio declared bankruptcy? Well maybe it is because the largest and richest advertisers in the country have blacklisted the network.
Media Matters has obtained proof of the blacklisting in a memo distrubuted by ABC execs:An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the adverstisers insist that "NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming." Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald's, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.I seem to remember way back in my youth, when this same type of thing was done to African-American owned radio stations causing the same kind of outcome. It is bad enough that the corporate giants rape and pillage the economy of their own employees and earths precious resources, now the want to also control what the American people choose to hear. This is outrageous to say the least. I certainly hope one of the things Nancy Pelosi includes in her "first 100 hours" list is to tear apart the current monopolistic broadcast laws and return the equal time statutes that served the people quite well. You can see an enlarged copy of the memo HERE.... Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)is also covering the story HERE.... |