The founder of the country's largest blog, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Kos was featured in a Q & A feetch in the NYT Magazine Sunday and we were happy to read his comments about talk radio.
We were happy of course because he bolstered our own tired yet veracious tirades on the subject. He's releasing his book, "Crashing the Gate;" so you'll likely see and hear him around the explaining industry and at a local bookstore near you.
To get their message out, the Republicans created this entire conservative noise machine. They have Fox News and The Washington Times and the 700 Club and just about the entire talk-radio dial. They have this incredible ability to promote whatever the big issue of the day is. There is no partisan liberal media that is working in concert with the Democratic Party in order to sell whatever the party is selling.
(We'd have to add MSNBC and the Skagit Valley Herald).
The interviewer Deborah Solomon disagreed, saying, "The liberal media has you and Michael Moore. Think of the endless volume of verbiage you guys produce."
To which Kos replied, "The blog world is tiny compared to talk radio. Rush Limbaugh reaches nearly 20 million people every week. The Daily Kos reaches maybe a million."
The Washington State Political Report says:
"Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (The Daily Kos) and Jerome Armstrong (MyDD) are coming to Seattle on Friday, April 7, and to Olympia on Saturday, April 8, to promote their new book Crashing the Gate. Details pending."
Posted by: Ted Smith | March 20, 2006 at 05:52 AM