Left of the Dial

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Plot: This America Undercover documentary charts the long-anticipated rise, scandalous near-fall, and subsequent salvation of Air America Radio, a liberal radio network geared towards those whose opinions s...( read more  )kew a bit more to the "Left of the Dial." Told through verite footage shot at the New York-based station over a nine-month period, the 90-minute film begins with a frenetic pace and never lets up from the network's evolution twelve days before and up to its March, 2004 launch, through a much-publicized scandal involving bounced checks that nearly ended the dream, it concludes with a disappointing 2004 election that spawned new resolve among the talent, staff and management of the station. The film provides revealing profiles of management and on-air talent, ranging from those with little or no past radio experience, to those with national fame (or notoriety). The latter includes noted TV satirist and author Al Franken, whose on-air inaugural words promise, "an end to the right-wing dominance of talk radio, a beginning of a battle for truth, a battle for justice, a battle indeed for America itself."

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  November 21, 2007

  This documentary about the beginning of Air America Radio is a real roller-coaster ride of ups and downs. It starts with the exhilaration of the very idea of standing up to the conservative monopoly on talk radio, through the last-minute problems with microphones, technical issues, and sheer readiness, and proceeds through the economic woes as AAR's personalities and staff discover they've been mislead about "the money situation." It's particularly striking how Randi Rhodes, a well-established liberal talk radio hero from Florida, is neglected and treated as second-class while everybody focuses on bigger celebrities like Al Franken -- but then on her very first day, she blows everybody else away, bringing on ecstatic cheers from the crew and lighting up the phone banks. Overall the portrayal of events is more balanced than I had expected -- this documentary has something for both the liberal viewers, as well as the conservative detractors; it simply lays out the events as they happen, and let the viewer decide whether to cheer for AAR or to cackle at its struggles and woes.

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  Al Franken
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  Janeane Garofalo
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  Katherine Lanpher
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  Mark Walsh
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  Randi Rhodes

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Kate O'Callaghan, Patrick Farrelly
• Genres: Documentary
• Released: February 1, 2006
• DVD Released: February 21, 2006

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