Tell the executive in charge at SIRIUS that you're patriotic too, dammit.

From TomPaine.com:


SIRIUS Escalation
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 17, 2007 - 12:56pm.


Your calls, letters, and telegrams to SIRIUS publicist Hillary Schupf explaining why it's unacceptable to call the liberal channel "SIRIUS Left" and the conservative channel "SIRIUS Patriot" are bearing fruit—anyone see Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment last night?

Better yet, it's shaken loose a precious tidbit from a SIRIUS insider who's on our side: the name of executive responsible for these sorts of decisions. He's Dave Gorab, and his email is dgorab@siriusradio.com.

Tell him we've come up with an excellent solution, a win-win for everyone involved—certainly for a corporation that wants better branding for one of its properties than a name so limp as "SIRIUS Left." (The only losers are the conservatives who are deprived of an unfair propaganda coup, which is the whole reason we're protesting this.) It comes from blogger and radio host Taylor Marsh:

The logos aren't too bad, however. The wingnuts get the eagle, while liberals get the flag with Lady Liberty in front of it. So why not call the liberal station "Sirius Liberty"?

Please, please let us know what you hear in the comments below. We can't win unless we keep score.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/sirius_escalation?tx=3

And I was VERY polite and expressed my gratitude for him getting Malloy back on quickly.

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Okay, now I feel a little bad... but not too much.

I see that he got Malloy back on, which is good. But how stupid is this naming thing? How obvious an affront does it have to be for him to notice?

It's completely lame of them to carry only the first hour of Thom Hartmann live, and then pre-empt the rest of his show so they can air Lynn Samuels, who basically just babbles incessantly for 2 hours.

And while I think Alex Bennett's OK, I'd much rather have Stephanie Miller airing live in that time slot.

They should air Stephanie and Thom live, in entirety. And keep Mike Malloy live, of course.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Operated by Salem Communications:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Communications

Read up on these fine folks...a major purveyor of right wing radio porn.

Hopefully Sirius will notice this discrepency and make satisfactory changes.

Sir,

I don't currently subscribe to Sirius, but my son does. Yet,I am somehow offended your satellite networks decision to distinguish left and right of your dial as one being patriotic and the other.... left behind.

Doesn't make for good strategic planning. Please fix it so that you might have one isle of patriotism from another.

Sincerely,


(I really wanted to include Swamp Rat's picture of Vitter at the end, but I held that thought) :patriot:

(if you consider Fox to be right-wing, which I do) and only one left-wing talk station.