Drudge Again Falsely Claiming Kos' Book, Air America Radio Tanking

[JohnnyCougar]

'PROGRESSIVE' MEDIA STALLS: 'AIR AMERICA' IN AUDIENCE PLUNGE NYC, 'DAILY KOS' BOOK SELLS ONLY 3,600 COPIES
Wed Apr 26 2006 11:39:51 ET

Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show.

A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN.



Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third of its audience -- in the past year!

Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006.

During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 60,900 listeners every quarter hour in the fall.

A network source says the radio ratings released today do not reflect the overall growth of the broadcast.

"The demos are better, and listeners trust AIR AMERICA to give them the real truth on issues and the Bush presidency," says the insider.

Kos already debunked his end of it. His book is #25 overall on Amazon.com, and he has sold about 10,000 copies offline.

Could somebody please debunk the Air America lies?

[tuvor]

1. drudge...drudge...wasn't he considered important once?

I can't say I've heard much from this "drudge" in quite a while.

[laheina]

2. Some wingnut tired to post this in LBN earlier.

What a moran!

[Downtown Hound]

3. Here you go

These ratings are from fall of 2005 but what they show is a general upward trend in Air America ratings. Also keep in mind that these numbers don't reflect the popularity of the network on the internet. Last I heard it was the fourth most popular streamed network.

http://www.airamericaradio.com/node/1488

On edit: Here is a wikipedia article on AAR. I have a lot of issues with Wikipedia in general but if you scroll down to ratings it will essentially give you a pretty clear picture, and the news is positive. AAR is doing fine, and each year it continues to grow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_Radio

[progressivebydesign]

5. Notice drudge the pissant doesn't mention Ed Schultz who's kickin' ass! NT

[progressivebydesign]

4. Interesting.. didn't we see that bullshit on Freep while reseraching SNOW?

Does that chirpy have an account at Freeperland, as well? Total bullshit. Does anyone really fucking read Sludge anymore?

[LittleClarkie]

6. Meanwhile, Big Eddie's doing pretty well

Who knows about Air America. They're still kicking.

[Savannah Progressive]

7. I don't know about Amazon, but....

The NY Times list hasn't got Crashing the Gate listed at the moment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/bestseller/0430besthardnonfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

However, it does have a number of Repugnik revealing and truth about Bush books listed, so I guess that does limit the claim of dying progressive media to some extent doesn't it?

The Repugniks just can't stand that the only things they read is the comics, if they bother to read that. A newspaper and a book are both useless to the ignorant, and willfully stupid aren't they?

[chat_noir]

8. Amazon screen cap