At 09:50 AM 8/23/2005, Becca Vargo Daggett wrote:
I wonder how many of the reporters and bloggers who have covered this
story actually listened to Nick Coleman's show.
It was, more often than not, dull and shallow.
I listened to Nick Coleman's show on occasion. I enjoyed the show. Nick
has an excellent sense of humor - and enjoyed doing the show. His rips on
the Powerline bloggers Hindrocket and Big Trunk (the Time Magazine Blog of
the year, and winner of the City Pages Best Meltdown Award) were hilarious.
He rarely had guests. Most of the time it was two hours of his yammering
about whatever he wanted.
Wendy Wilde, on the other hand, takes the time to find guests and cover a
variety of current event/policy topics. She does her research so she can
ask good questions. My limited contact with the station leads me to
believe that this is through her hard work, not the work of the producer.
Nor has her show avoided guns and gays (I'm not sure about abortion), or
the Iraq war (which Coleman also claims he was told not to talk about).
Wendy Wilde's show would go after Michele Bachmann (the Michele Bachmann
morality minutes were hysterical). However other than that, I didn't hear
her talk about gay issues much. She often seems to be repeating Democratic
talking points.
I'm sure Nick Coleman is a good guy, and I'm not passing judgment on his
other work. But this strikes me as sour grapes from someone who just
wasn't doing his radio job well.
I checked Nick's story out with other Air America sources. Nick's story
checks out.
Once the infamous Air America memo got posted on the Centrisity blog, and
City Pages followed up on the story, Janet Roberts came up with a cover
story.
Here was her original memo.
6. Certain Subjects Prohibited
JR Broadcasting will not permit discussion of the issues of gun control,
abortion, or gay marriage. It is the policy of JR Broadcasting that
discussion around these issues tend to be more sensationalistic than
substantial. In order to provide for reasoned, substantial discussion of
other issues, JR Broadcasting prohibits discussion of gun control,
abortion, or gay marriage. Exceptions to this policy can be obtained prior
to broadcast by request in writing to the station Manager.
EY: Janet Robert later said this memo was a draft. I later got a copy of
the memo, and the memo was not labeled draft. Both Nick and a couple other
radio sources confirmed the authenticity of the memo, and said it was not a
draft, and they never received the so-called "updated copy" from Janet Robert.
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