It Would Be Nice To Have A Story Before The Whole Network Disappears

Stephen Spruiell notes that Post reporter Paul Farhi has one graf at the end of a Howard Stern story about Air America's minuscule ratings in Washington. Farhi:

Air America, the liberal talk network carried on WWRC-AM (1260), went from bad to nonexistent. After WWRC recorded a mere fraction of a rating point in the spring with syndicated shows from the likes of lefty talkers Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller, Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.

There's nothing here, because there never is in the Washington Post, about the Air America funding scandal as chronicled by the reporting of Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney.

Apart from one wire story that was available at washingtonpost.com, the only comments about it have been from Posties in live chats earlier this year. Here are two items I posted about them. In the second of those links, Farhi points to tiny ratings and the fact the network isn't based in DC, concluding  "I guess that combo makes it less than a compelling story for us." That doesn't explain why the Post has featured Air America before the scandal, including in a Sunday magazine cover story that Farhi called "dumb."

Does it go without saying? It does not. Wonder what would happen if a conservative radio juggernaut got into any trouble with the law. Oh, wait.  And of what local interest is Fargo, N.D.-based Ed Schultz, who was covered in a recent Howard Kurtz  story when a deal to put the liberal talk-show host on Armed Forces Radio fell through?

I want to read about Schultz. I want to read about Air America. The Post wants to outsource one of these stories, and has.

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