Air America? Surely You Jest

I see that Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney are appearing tonight on The O'Reilly Factor to speak about their reporting on the Air America funding scandal. It's still true: The scandal has never appeared in the pages of the Washington Post, though an AP wire story was available via the search engine at washingtonpost.com starting on Aug. 13. It may have appeared on the homepage sometime over that weekend, but I never saw it there. To place this in some context for new readers, the Post has run numerous stories on the liberal radio network, particulary when it was launched, and a few more, later. This post of mine on Aug. 25 is still a good summary of what the Post has and hasn't run, including an amusing period in which one Postie said the paper was looking into it and another said it didn't merit local interest. Which is funny, because as I said at the time:

Despite this lack of compelling local interest, the Post has written many stories about Air America before the scandal, including one on June 13 by Kurtz when Al Franken accepted an award.

The search engine currently generates a return for "Air America" from a Howard Kurtz online file dated Sept., 23,  but it's a reference to a Newsbusters item that host Randi Rhodes compared Katrina victims to the Holocaust. (The main engine looks back for about two weeks and provides returns for free; to search further back you enter the archives, for a fee).