] Some have questioned whether liberals can succeed at all
] in the realm of talk radio. Conservatives, the argument
] goes, see the world in black and white, and offer
] more-entertaining points of view, while liberals tend to
] debate shades of gray and put audiences to sleep. In
] addition, corporate advertisers may favor conservative
] hosts who are friendlier to their points of view.
]
] "If you're promoting SUVs, you're more likely to get an
] SUV commercial than if you're bashing them. That's pretty
] elementary," said Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a liberal
] who had a talk show for several years on Pacifica Radio,
] including Berkeley's KPFA (94.1 FM). "The fact of the
] matter is, the liberal in American terms is offering
] correctives to capitalism, whereas the conservatives are
] singing the praises of capitalism, unfettered and
] unabashed and unapologetic. So, right there you have an
] order of magnitude difference in terms of corporate
] favorability."

[ Food for thought... Air America goes live at the end of march... -k]