Let's not lose focus people. AAR is NOT the enemy

We need to pull together to bring back Democratic rule in the House, Senate, and Presidency. We lost a good voice today (hopefully only temporarily), but remember, he's only one voice. Remember what it was like without AAR? Wall to wall Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck, and on and on. I would prefer to have the option of having a liberal station.

Let's do what we can to get Mike Malloy back with emails, phone calls, and petitions. And then let's get back to the REAL fight of getting out of Iraq, balancing the budget by making those who can afford it pay their fair share, securing our borders, fighting global warming, searching for an alternative to oil, bringing peace to the Middle East, keeping jobs here at home, restoring democracy in America, and making the United States the great country it was before Bush came into office.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2017356&mesg_id=2017356

Oh, and the word you're looking for is lose, not loose :/

I did a quick search but didn't see that thread

as Mike Malloy is on right now...http://www.airamerica.com/

AAR hasn't changed the website. TH is subbing for Randi, not Mike.

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Edit: sorry Wonk, I didn't see the other thread, nor notice the spelling. :/

This is the real fight.

And, AAR management needs to hear from us. Period.

And it's tight as can be on the mission to retake congress, which overall, should be the #1 priority of every decent american in the country.

with Ed Schultz? They already replaced Sam Seder in my market with him. What if they want him coast to coast? He's close to the middle and crossing over to the right. Is this what you want? Is this what they want?

Schultz is a repig, plain and simple.

For one thing, it's impossible. Schultz doesn't work for AAR.

But maybe they'll replace him nationally with that last bastion of deep progressive thinking known as the Satellite Sisters instead of just locally in New York.

Sorry it was a crazy connection I made. When they replaced Majority Report with Ed Schultz, I was upset. So I thought, they wouldn't be replacing Mike with him, would they? I shouldn't have posted what I was thinking. Sorry.

affiliate, which has nothing to do with any Air America decisions.

For example, we've NEVER heard Schultz in NY at all.

mine. I'm on the rather liberal coast of California and a lot of people like him (not me). We do get majority report after Schultz in a repeat format that's unsatisfying. I hope he's not going to come over to AAR.

Who though they might not jump in his time slot (perhaps it will be Sam Sedar moved until then, which might be one more reason why he's "pissed" on the air last night), The Young Turks have just been announced as being added to AAR as of September 1st, though it's likely not for Malloy's time slot for they themselves.

I think Mike Malloy should consider getting in with the Jones Network, who syndicates both Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller to many of the same AAR affiliate stations. That way, many of these stations (like KLSD here in San Diego) wouldn't have to change their lineup at all, only who they syndicate Malloy's time slot to.

Only stipulation I would have on that is that Malloy should be allowed the same editorial license he's had with Air America up until this point through Jones too. I don't want to see him censor or "dumb down" his show in order to do business with them. I think he might be better partnering up with someone like Thom Hartmann if that were happening, where he could perhaps team together to syndicate his show to Sirius and other places too.

sign up with AAR in the future or that AAR affiliates can't pick his show up to air just like they did in my area.

real Buffalo-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago-Milwaukee Democrat - sports and beer and union labels. As he puts it "Folks who shower AFTER work."

He's what we used to call a "Lunch Pail Leftie" from an older generation; paychecks and benefits not doctrinal purity.

Sorry.

Welcome to DU, I guess.

Intellectuals and workers -- and the intellectuals alone don't win elections and the workers alone don't win elections. It takes workers and intellectuals coming together to win elections.

of the road. They have been very left and only veered to the middle of the road when they had to compromise with the right. I find the Clintons an aberration, but I predict Hillary won't go any further than she has because she's not left enough to run for President and it shows.

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We shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater...

but if enough people dropped their premium subscriptions, or XM, they would go under and there would be nothing at all but rightwing anger and bullshit.

Which is what the republican bastards would like. So I will not cancel my podcast subscription, but it will be a terrible wait until Malloy's on the air somewhere again.

I'm not going to abandon the only liberal radio network in the country because I'm not fond of one of their programming choices. It's not like they're replacing Malloy with Shawn Hannity or something, geez. When I own my own radio station, I'll decide who I want on it, too.

Ever since he's taken over we've been getting f'd too many times! First programming decisions like bringing on Springer and pushing him a lot on places like KLSD which (for a while) had his delayed program at their request played instead of two hours of Mike Malloy's live program in the evenings here at KLSD in San Diego. Recently they evidently figured out carrying Mike Malloy the full three hours made better business sense. Now I'm guessing for at least a while they'll go back to delaying Springer's broadcast to play in Malloy's slot. Sucks.

Secondly, they forced me to buy a new XM receiver and drop Sirius when they went exclusive with XM with that stupid "exclusive" arrangement. I guess that didn't get them a lot of money now did it! And for some time they didn't carry Randi Rhodes or Mike Malloy live on XM like they did on Sirius either.

Now, dropping Mike Malloy altogether with other questionable programming moves too.

I've about had it with Air America. I might tune into KLSD, but XM is this close to getting dropped by me. Whichever satellite service picks up Malloy will get/keep my business. I no longer am tied to Air America any more.

There was an article a while back that interviewed him and he said he was inspired by listening to Rush Limbaugh in wanting to take over Air America as a talk radio entity. Air America owners/investors should fire his ass and replace him with someone that has a decent sense of who AAR's customers are as well as being a good businessman. I do believe it is possible to have both. Goldberg is definitely not that person.

I love Mike Malloy too. I listen to him most nights. But it sounds like he has some kind of Svengali-like hold on some of the people here. I don't want to think of Malloy as a cult leader. Rather than punishing Air America, or Keith Olbermann, or Democratic Underground, I will take out my frustrations by working extra hard to get a Democrat elected in the next Congressional election.

... there is so little left-of-center content ANYWHERE in the media world.

I think the loss of Malloy from AAR dilutes the variety of their content, and will alienate a swatch of the listening audience, but AAR remains the lesser of many evils. (Of course, that's not to say that AAR shouldn't be blasted with user feedback on the move.)