[Mpls] Air America Minnesota Owner, Janet Robert Has a Cow over Interview with TC Pride Director

[Eva Young]

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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