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Editorial Reviews
Bill Clinton, Chicago magazine, December 2003
"(The Drobnys) want to do something good for our country by working to restore a sense of balance..."
From the Publisher
This very timely book gives an eye-opening perspective on what it is like to be a mover and shaker in liberal politics.Provides first-hand, behind-the-scenes accounts of Air America Radio’s origins-and how it almost didn’t make it off the ground.
And, perhaps most important, it explains media bias, i.e. how the media serves the agenda of its corporate ownership–and why this "corporatocracy poses a danger to having an informed public.
From the Author
"I'm here to show you can launch a radio network despite the challenges of getting funding, resistance and distortion from the right wing media, and a lack of cooperation from major distributors. The liberal voice needs to be heard. Air America Radio is here to change the political landscape and hopefully, become a counterforce to conservative and talk radio dominance."
–SHELDON DROBNY
About the Author
SHELDON DROBNY is the chairman of Paradigm Group II, LLC, an investment firm in Chicago, IL. Mr. Drobny co-developed the concept for Air America Radio with his wife Anita. He is a businessman, philanthropist, and writer. He has contributed articles to the website, Makethemaccountable.com. The Drobnys founded the Fourth Estate Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting unbiased, uncensored investigative journalism. The Drobnys are also benefactors of the chaired professorship of the University of Illinois Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, and are activists in Democratic Party politics.
Book Description
At last, from the man who built it, comes the first-hand account of the rocky road that led us to our nation’s first liberal talk-radio network. After years of listening to monologues from right wing radio ideologues, Sheldon Drobny had enough. He decided the public airwaves needed balance, and that the way to get that balance was by starting his own full time, liberal radio network--what would become Air America Radio.
In Road to Air America, Drobny tells the story of the obstacles he and his wife Anita faced as they tried to make their concept for a progressive radio network a reality. Their journey took them through a world of politics, money, and media as they were helped by some of America's most powerful political figures. Determined to get his liberal radio network on the air, Drobny sold his concept to a team of radio executives only to have it fall back in his lap, nearly undone, five months later.
Today, after a high profile and bumpy launch, Air America is growing and going strong, on the air in 31 markets nationwide. Road to Air America is a story of determination and creativity, and it gives a first hand account of what it takes to get a progressive voice heard in a time when the conservative right dominates the radio airwaves. Drobny, a Chicago-based venture capitalist, philanthropist, and political activist, also has plenty to say about the destructive self-interest of today's corporate-owned media, and how it inspired his concept for a more balanced public discourse.
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