Air America (media?) now says that Randi and Thom's shows can't be archived. WTF????

[SexyLiberal]

I have always gotten my Randi Rhodes shows and my Thom Hartmann shows from White Rose. And WHAT THE FUCK happened today???


Now I go there today and I can't do that anymore because of some cease and desist letter.


FOR SIX YEARS I have been going to this website for shows and now I am pissed. WHAT THE FUCK????


Here is the letter:

Subject: Randi Rhodes Show and Thom Hartmann Program
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:11:31 -0600
From: "Locke Raper" ([e-mail])
To: [e-mail]
Cc: "Scott Elberg" ([e-mail])

Dear Ben Burch and/or other White Rose Management-

Please view this email as a formal request on behalf of Air America
Media LLC (AAM) for you to immediately cease all storage, reproduction,
public performance or any other use of AAM's programming, or any portion
thereof and immediately destroy any reproductions that you have created
or stored, and cease listing AAM's programming on your website
(www.whiterosesociety.org ) or
claiming that AAR or its agents has in any way consented to your use.
This applies to but is not limited to any broadcasts of The Thom
Hartmann Program and the Randi Rhodes Show.

We are open to discussing how to best ensure an orderly transition for
you, your site visitors and listeners of our shows but need to do so
ASAP.

Please contact me today to discuss at 212.871.8191.

Sincerely,

Locke Raper

Vice President - Business Development
Air America Media LLC
641 Sixth Avenue, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10011
o: 212.871.8191

[e-mail]
www.airamerica.com



That is a working number.... I just gave Mr Raper a piece of my mind. He sounds like he is twelve but I was too pissed off to care.

If you have a minute call his office, I am sure by now you are gonna get his voicemail but tell him that Randi and Thom should be free on the airwaves and archived where they always have been!

[jgraz]

1. They have a pay-to-play archive on the AAR site

I'm shocked they've allowed this to go on as long as it has.

[SharonRB]

2. If you have iTunes you can download them

from somewhere else, unless they've sent this to the other source as well. I think it's a radio station called The Green or something like that. If you go to iTunes and do a search on Randi Rhodes or Thom Hartmann you should be able to find them. That's where I get them from if I need them.

[shireen]

3. that's odd, Ben told me some time back that

he had a contract with Thom to host the show at whiterosesociety.org
But that was before Mark Green took over at AAR.

That really sucks! Thom and Ben have had a long relationship regarding the radio archives. It must be upsetting for Thom too.

The least AAR could do was wait till after the elections were over.

[NightWatcher]

4. watch them go the way of Step and Ed Schultz with a pay service soon

I already pay for AAR on XM (stupid me), but now to get podcasts I will have to probably have to pay for them too. At one time I was already paying for Mike Malloy and Jeff Farias. I quit paying for radio. I stream when I can and I miss the rest.

[librechik]

5. Locke Raper--Quite an ironic name that Vice President of Biz D has

Is that for real?

[SexyLiberal]

6. yeah crazy... it is.

Call the number. Locke sounds about 13 in his VM message but that really is his name.