Sam Seder has a new daytime show on Air America Radio! The first guest on his show was Bernie Sanders, next (Independent) Senator from Vermont. They talked at length about the torture debate, and Bernie closed out the interview saying how important it is for the country that America have progressive voices like Seder and Air America in the media.
Anyway, I just wanted to diary this because I agree with Bernie, and I usually see comments in AAR diaries questioning the importance of progressive radio, "because we already have blogs" or "talk radio doesn't appeal to the left"
I'm mostly happy about the latest round of changes at AAR, since they got rid of Danny Goldberg. Sam Seder is my favorite AAR host, he has lots of bloggers on the show like Kos, Atrios, Bill Scheer and others - in fact, AAR is how I personally started hearing about blogs and now I'm hooked.
My only problem is I can't listen during the daytime, so I just forked over my $29.95 for a six-month "AAR Premium" subscription to Seder's new show.
If you want to hear Bernie and Sam, you can stream today's show for $1.99 here: http://www.airamerica.com/...
And if you want REAL progressive radio in NYC, call WWRL and tell them (politely) that bribe-taking Republican shills like ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS (!) already have plenty of right wing radio outlets to pollute, get him off 1600 AM!
CALL WWRL: (212) 631-0800