First Reaction to Air America

by Sean Hackbarth

I just listened to a few minutes of Janeane Garofalo on Air America. Why did she bother having Dave Chappelle as a guest? I haven’t watched his show and can’t remember ever watching any of his stand up, but on “The Majority Report” he’s sputtering, stuttering, and mumbling about a recent incident with a airline gate agent and airport security. Garofalo wanted to talk about the Right’s use of language, and Chappelle mumbles for five minutes making no particular point. The point of good talk radio (liberal or conservative) is to have something to say and do it in an entertaining manner. In the brief time I was listening, I heard nothing being said and wasn’t entertained.

[via Oliver Willis]

UPDATE: Doc Searls has lots of material about the first group of stations airing Air America as well as some advice to become more Net-centric. Then there’s Glenn with plenty of other reactions from the blogosphere.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2004 at 9:34 pm and is filed under Culture. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “First Reaction to Air America”

What an odd concept Oliver has, “our radio?” I don’t consider people like Rush or Sean Hannity “my radio”…bully for you guys I guess, you’ve got “your radio”…

Posted by Steve of Norway on April 1st, 2004

I listened to the free stream of parts of two shows and it was mindnumbingly banal.

If they can’t present their ideas in an interesting and coherent way, there’s no point in listening to them.

I don’t believe that Liberal views, at least in the modern as opposed to the classical sense, have the legs to carry successful talk radio, but that doesn’t come to play, here. The wrong people were picked to run these shows. The don’t have the ability to sustain a conversation beyond a minute or two.

It’s simply unlistenable dreck.

Posted by PGT on April 2nd, 2004