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The Millionaire’s Media Megaphone — Part Three
BY Caitlin Ginley AND Taylor Rausch | September 04, 2008
It was just days after Air America’s March 2004 launch and already things looked grim. The highly anticipated liberal talk radio network, launched only eight months before Democrat John Kerry was to face President Bush at the polls, had been on Chicago’s affiliate station WNTD-950 AM for only two weeks when station owner Arthur Liu complained about a bounced check. Air America, he claimed, owed him more than $1 million, and he dropped its programming.
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BY Alicia C. Shepard | September 03, 2008
When Illinois Senator Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination on June 3, becoming the first African-American ever to do so, he and his wife, Michelle, took to the stage in St. Paul, Minnesota. They hugged, and kissed, and then she raised her right hand in a fist and knocked knuckles with her husband in a celebratory gesture familiar to millions of Americans, especially sports fans.
Three days later, that gesture made news on the Fox News Channel program America’s Pulse. Host E.D. Hill promoted an upcoming segment based on the Obamas’ display of affection witnessed around the world: “A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?” she said to her viewers. “The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We’ll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.”
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BY Alicia C. Shepard | September 02, 2008
Rich people live lives that most everyone else can only imagine. They can buy the nicest cars, drink the finest wines, afford the best doctors, and secure the highest priced lawyers. But when it comes to making donations to their favorite presidential candidates, they are like ordinary Americans in that the most they can donate is $2,300 per election cycle. Still, there is another way that only someone with megamillions can influence an election: buy a newspaper, radio network, or cable channel and use it to help a candidate get to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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