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Sunday, May 23, 2004
NOT SO SERIOUS AFTER ALL.
Attorney General Tom Reilly finds time in his busy schedule to
persecute
same-sex couples. Obviously I gave him way too much credit.
AIR AMERICA'S ONGOING WOES.
Still more bad news about Air
America Radio, the liberal
broadcasting venture that you can't hear in Boston. Reuters
reports
that the struggling network is seeking to raise more money and is
retreating from its earlier goal of buying radio stations outright.
At least the people behind it haven't given up, but they need someone
to run this mess who actually knows radio - fast.
Here
is a possibility.
I have to confess that I haven't
listened since the first week or so. Capturing the Web stream and
converting it to a format so that I can take it with me is just too
much of a pain. Forget whether the programming is any good - Air
America needs money, and it needs stations. How can anyone take this
seriously if it can't be heard in liberal Boston and Cambridge in
time for the Democratic National Convention?
CAMPAIGN FAIRNESS.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will accept the
nomination
in Boston whether it costs him millions or not. The reason is very
simple: he can't afford to let the convoluted alternative that his
campaign has come up with to become the story.
But let's stop snickering for a
moment at the notion of a candidate so indecisive that he can't even
make up his mind whether to accept the nomination at a nominating
convention. The fact is that his campaign has identified a real
problem, and there ought to be a reasonable solution.
The Federal Election Commission
should find a way to let Kerry keep spending the campaign funds he's
raised as long as George W. Bush can. It's absurd to think that
federal spending limits should kick in five weeks earlier for Kerry
just because the Democrats are having their convention at a normal
time of year, while the Republicans delayed theirs as long as
possible.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
