Calling Air America: .......Interesting Read

[Fluffdaddy]

"A year ago March, Air America, the liberal/progressive talk-radio network, took off from New York into the wild blue yonder with an HBO documentary film crew in the cockpit and a mighty blast of publicity acting as a tail wind. The craft was barely airborne before it hit turbulence. Its Los Angeles and Chicago outlets pulled the plug on the fledgling network over money squabbles. Paychecks were late, rumors abounded, the original set of pilots left, to be replaced by others. The plane, it turned out, had been allowed to take off with an insufficient fuel load--meaning working capital--and was going to have to be refueled in midflight, never an easy operation. "


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http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050523&c=1&s=vonhoffman

[onehandle]

1. This article was posted here weeks ago.

There are errors and many here and at AAR have addressed them.