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Remember Sheldon Drobny?(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Remember Sheldon Drobny? The Chicago millionaire venture capitalist had a brief moment of fame as the founder of a new liberal talk-radio network. Lionized by some on the left, he also gave voice to their worst excesses; he once enthusiastically compared George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. But Drobny never quite got the new network going, and now he has sold the enterprise to a group of businessmen who seem more likely to do the job. The investors, led by former Internet executive Mark Walsh, are hiring people, building studios, and, perhaps most important, buying radio stations in an attempt to be on the air early next year. They've made other progress as well. For one thing, they realize how boring and didactic previous liberal talk efforts have been. For another, ...

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