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Weekly Audit: Time for a Second Stimulus

The Media Consortium | Posted 07.07.2009 | Home


The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger Another stunning reminder of the U.S. economy's dire condition arrived last Thursday. The nation shed a total o...

Right Wing Hate Getting Out of Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media


Mike Papantonio

About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...

Finding A New Voice

Lizz Winstead | Posted 06.22.2009 | New York


Lizz Winstead

Now there were many types of fallout, but to those of us who made our living as political satirists, questioning our government was still an unwelcome programming pitch.

Christian Majority Losing Steam

Mike Papantonio | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

When President Obama made the statement that America is not uniquely a Christian nation, there were no surprises about how the Christian community rea...

Cheney Doesn't Want Us to Ask Questions

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

Former Minnesota Governor, Jesse Ventura is in demand on the interview circuit these days because of his new bestseller book. I interviewed him last ...

What the Hell Have We Become?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

Rather than two convictions, non-Gitmo prosecutors have had 148 successful trials and convictions of terrorists.

Sexy Job of the Future: the Almighty Fact-Checker

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media


Andrea Chalupa

It's sad to think that journalistic standards, and reliability, is slipping away as magazines and newspapers shut down. But this is creating a great Hollywood close-up for the humble fact-checker.

Ron Kuby's Jailhouse Advice to Bernie Madoff

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business


Ron Mwangaguhunga

"The first piece of advice," said Kuby on his syndicated program, is that "prison is designed to be arbitrary...you have to live with the arbitrary system of the penal code. Period."

CIA Documents Reveal Details About Secretive Air America Airline

AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics


DALLAS — Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by ...

Maddow's Unusual Transition to TV

Bill Mann | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media


Bill Mann

The thoughtful Maddow has established a lower-key approach with her "just the facts, ma'am" essays, and she's carved out an important niche for herself at MSNBC.

Montel Williams Promises To Air Both Sides On Air America Radio Show

New York Daily News | David Hinckley | Posted 04.07.2009 | Media


Longtime TV host Montel Williams started a daily show on Air America radio Moday, with the ambitious goal of changing both the tone and depth of today...

Montel Williams Gets Air America Show "Montel Across America"

Reuters | Steve Gorman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran TV personality Montel Williams has signed a deal to host a new flagship talk show on Air America, the struggling radio...

7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, "Senator Maddow" & More

Mark Green | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Mark Green

Senator-elect Al Franken hasn't spoken to the national media since November -- until now.

Franken: "We're Going To Win Soon"

The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Al Franken gave his first national media interview since November to Air America's Mark Green Friday. Franken acknowledges the difficulties of his lo...

Jason Linkins

Ana Marie Cox To Air America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.13.2009 | Media


Ana Marie Cox, who founded Wonkette -- a well-known political blog where politics was finally forced to have sex with the internet -- and who has rece...

Air America vs. Fox News

Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.13.2009 | Media


Cenk Uygur

In 2008, former Air America host Al Franken was elected the next Senator from Minnesota. Current Air America host Rachel Maddow was given her own television show on MSNBC.

Reflections on Graham Nash's Reflections Box Set

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.05.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

Nash's trademark high harmony vocals and impressive writing talents fluidly traverse the box set's newly-mastered, 64 tracks with career highlights... and remixes galore.

Jason Linkins

Air America Founder: Rush Limbaugh Is Right

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.22.2008 | Media


As we've been documenting, the latest paranoid delusion among media purveyors on the right is that a revival of the "Fairness Doctrine" -- a mid-20th ...

7 Days: Green Jobs, Caroline Kennedy and Rick Warren

Mark Green | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics


Mark Green

Is Obama's choice of Rick Warren another example of the president-elect giving conservatives the visual while later giving progressives the policy?

7 Days: Kuttner on Economic Crisis, with Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics


Mark Green

While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama.

7 Days: Brazile, Huffington, Reagan & Green on Why Obama Won So Big.

Mark Green | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Mark Green

This time "the whole world was watching" was literally true... and they were waving flags, not fingers. Our A+ panel discusses why -- W's uniting influence, O's bottom-up campaign, McCain's dishonor.

Making It Official: I Endorse Barack Obama

Ron Reagan | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Ron Reagan

I assumed most people already knew that I had supported Obama. Anyone who has spent five minutes listening to my program would have known that. But if it helped to make it official, I'm happy to make it so.

7 Days: Daschle on Obama and McCain, with Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics


Mark Green

We now see McCain's split-level strategy for the remaining two weeks -- while he stays patriotic and funny, his campaign quietly floods the country with slanderous robo-calls and ads equating Obama and Ayers/ACORN.

Rachel Sklar on Air America's Maron v. Seder on Palin's Qualifications (or Lack Thereof)

Huff TV | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media


Huff TV

"Eat The Press" editor Rachel Sklar was a guest yesterday on Air America's Maron v. Seder, a new live daily webcast, with Marc Maron and Sam Seder pre...

7 Days in America: Obama Passed the 'Commander in Chief' Test But McCain Didn't Pass the 'Economist in Chief' Test: with Huffington, Shrum, Galbraith & Green

Mark Green | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics


Mark Green

Arianna, Bob, Jamie and Mark discuss the presidential debate. Who won? Who was best on the economy? How can they improve their performances next time?