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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> I have a question.  Who do you think PAYS for radio in any station?

For viable commercial radio it's the sponsors.  For Air America it's donors.  
And even at that it's financially failing.  There are enough people who think 
that if only, if only the message were gotten out, people would wake from 
their conservative stupor and the world would be a better place.  They are 
presently contributing enough money to Air America so that it can PAY 
stations to 
carry its programming.

Local radio stations pay to carry Limbaugh, Boortz, O'Reilly and the like.  
The owners of those programs make a profit on selling the selling the 
programming.

Air America, by contrast, pays stations to carry its programming.  They lease 
the air time the same as political candidates, televangelistsm and 
advertisers.

The lesson here isn't that the message isn't getting out, it's that no one is 
interested.    Sure, there may be a few who don't know the gist of the 
liberal line of thinking, but not so many.  Most people know what the 
liberals are 
saying, they just don't believe it.  And they certainly aren't willing to 
support the sponsors to bring it to them.

I know the hugger-mugger, cloak and dagger bit that gets repeated is that the 
Republicans contribute money to keep conservative radio on the air, but, 
alas, it isn't true.  All those are commercial enterprises and are entirely 
supported by advertisers.  I wonder how many people recall that Limbaugh was 
a 
*liberal* commentator until he figured out there was no money in it.