This week, as I watched the Bill O'Reily/JetBlue/YearlyKos drama unfold, I was also, coincidentally, reading Jeff Cohen's memoirs of his time in cable TV, Cable News Confidential.  The book got me thinking about the state of progressive TV, and it drew my attention to a gaping hole in progressive media infrastructure.  There are very few well-known progressive TV shows, online or offline, capable of breaking into distribution on a cable channel.  Even if George Soros, or some other angel, were to announce the creation of a brand new progressive cable TV channel tomorrow, there would be very few shows ready to fill all of those new slots.

Follow me across the flip, for a brief summary of the book, and a quick glance at the state of progressive TV.

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