[Behind Liberal Lines]

This liberal radio network will have a brief burst of near-success, due to hype and curiousity, and then fade.

The reason? Their core audience already has NPR, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc., etc. They don't have any reason to switch to Franken and his group of fellow amateurs.

[elfman2]

" The reason? "

I think the reason is that leftist politics can’t survive the critical analysis and the spirited open dialogue promoted by talk radio.

NPR’s closed intellectual version has an audience, but it has to be both highbrow and closed to unedited listener comments. If it’s too emotionally charged, it’s unappealing. If it’s opened up for comments from people like you and me, it’s showed to be logically flawed. Al Franken can’t do anything more than energize the Democrat base for the election.

[Starve The Beast]

This liberal radio network will have a brief burst of near-success, due to hype and curiousity, and then fade.

The reason? Their core audience already has NPR, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc., etc...

Good logic, but there's one very important flaw: The existing liberal mouthpiece networks don't acknowledge that they're liberal. In fact, they occasionally try to deny it. Frankin and Co. are trumpeting that they're radio for the Left. I think that, even if it's really bad, millions of loony libs will listen just to show solidarity.