Champagne Tastes, Budweiser BudgetThat appears to be the story behind the
fall and fall of Air America.
Some people at Air America assert that, under Mr. Glaser and the team he put in place, the network was top-heavy with management, inept at selling ads, unwilling to make program compromises that veered from the liberal message and overstaffed with more than 100 employees when two dozen would have sufficed.
“What they did for $45 million they could have done for $10 million,” said Sheldon Drobny, an investor with a contentious relationship with the network. Mr. Drobny and his wife, Anita, longtime Democratic activists, are credited with the idea for Air America.Unfortunately no discussion of where the money went, like the ridiculous contracts given to Al Franken and his producer.