Stories by Danny Goldberg

Danny Goldberg was CEO of Air America Radio from 2005 until mid-2006. He is president of Gold Village Entertainment and has worked in the music business since the late 1960s. Check out his blog.subscribe to Danny Goldberg's rss feed

Don't Diss The Drum Circles: Why Hippie Culture Is Still Important to Our Protests

Posted on Oct 25, 2011, Source: Dissent Magazine

It is precisely the mystical utopian energy that most professional progressives so smugly dismiss that has aroused a salient, mass political consciousness on economic issues.

Growing Up With Gil Scott-Heron: In Loving Memory

Posted on Jun 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

High school friends remember the legendary musician, writer and poet.

Why Our Books, Movies and Music Are the Catalysts of Politics

Posted on Mar 18, 2011, Source: Down With Tyranny!

Many culturally induced nerve endings, hidden from the view of polls and focus groups, help determine political currents.

Reaganism's Dark And Lasting Shadow: How Right-Wing '80s Pop Culture Lives on in Today's Politics

Posted on Mar 16, 2011, Source: Down With Tyranny!

David Sirota's brilliant new book posits that we're living in an echo of the 1980s... and he's terrifyingly correct.

Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wing Lies?

Posted on Nov 21, 2010, Source: The Nation

Until progressives change the mind sets of the tens of millions who believe right-wing mythology, elections will be disappointing regardless of who is in the White House.

Air America Radio, RIP -- It Didn't Have to Be This Way

Posted on Jan 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Conservatives believe in spending whatever it takes to promote their ideas through the media. The crash of Air America shows that progressives don't have the right attitude.

Right-Wing Media Gets Desperate

Posted on Sep 30, 2005, Source: Huffington Post

Business is booming at Air America; so Limbaugh and O'Reilly have started spreading lies about the network's looming bellyflop.

Hollywood on Trial

Posted on Nov 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet

Liberal Hollywood has been blamed for swinging moral values voters towards Bush. But could Whoopi's joke or Jennifer Aniston's expletive really have been so influential?

How the Left Can Get Its Groove Back

Posted on Jun 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet

It's time progressives started speaking the language of America and Democrats started defending themselves and the country.
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