Posted on 05/14/2004 6:08:17 PM PDT by wjersey
NEW YORK -- Last week, Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher basked in the warm spring sun outside the Park Avenue skyscraper that serves as hub to the Air America radio network. Their distinctive laughs bounced off the courtyard wall as the pair relaxed after their 3-hour show.
"The O'Franken Factor" had been good that day. Good guests. Good energy. Things were looking up.
Fifteen minutes later they went upstairs for a staff meeting, where they learned that two of the network's top executives had resigned, the second management shake-up in as many weeks. The good news was that their paychecks, delayed for 24 hours, would now be distributed.
"There was a glitch," Franken acknowledged later. "There was a little gallows humor, then everyone was sort of anxious to get back to work."
Air America's erstwhile 'Minnesota Mafia'Keith BedfordSpecial To The Star TribuneThings are kind of weird at Air America these days. No one disputes that the network, now in its seventh week, has had a rocky lift-off and continues to be buffeted by financial and managerial turbulence. It has lost key stations in two of its top three markets, Chicago and Los Angeles, and this week closed its sales offices there and laid off staff.
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"When they pay you to hate..."
It sucks to be you, Lizz.
Why do the libs need a network when they have NPR???
Couldn't stop laughing at that one.
I don't think Chomsky has much dough, nor Wellstone.
I thought you were trying to convey a certian enigmatic mood of tension and menace, fraught with ambiguity and nuance. Not that it was working, mind you. Sorry to hear it was just bad typing.
"250 watt blowtorch"
250 Watts isn't a blowtorch, it's not even a votary candle. More like a damp wick.
As an accountant I can tell you that it has long been debated: "How do you know at what point a company has gone bankrupt?"
The common consensus seems to be that you know when a company can no longer meet it's payroll. I would say that Air Head America came within a whisker of meeting that definition this past week.
Such was my instinct, but I'm no businessman. Thanks, very glad to hear this from a professional!
You give me entiely too much credit.
However,if there was the odd chance that I,a humble plebian could approach the level of nuance exibited by our mutual Junior Senator,I would tear the shift buttons off my keyboard and eat them.
I shall remain as un-kerry-ish as possible.
No,not whiny at all,it's gotten to the point where I have to remember not to do it.
Most distressing.
Our local station, one of 4 started broadcasting Air-Ab America. I listened for 5 mintues before I turned the no talent Grafalo off. They will not last long at all.
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