Here is the Raw Story article, and there are others. I had to find it in Google cache so link is long.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:qUSVEzU3nAYJ:rawstory.com/news/2005/Radio_vets_purchase_Ed_Schultz_Liberal_talk_gains_business_0613.html+%22randy+michaels%22+%22ed+schultz%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10 Ed says it shows he's moving up in the world, but a Salon article and others show Michaels has few scruples in getting ratings.
I will find them and post again if you wish. I am on my older computer now as the other has power problems, waiting for tech.
I can't get to my info I need, but I can find it.
I am glad he listens and dialogues, but he has put so many of our Democrats down even after he has them on. He still does it to Dean, and once went after him for not going on the air more. Dean had been on the air all week, just not on Ed's show....in fact they almost had words on air. Dean told him maybe it was because he had not come on his show.
The sensationalism bothers me. Where did he get the talking points about Dean yesterday, when Dean went on CNN Friday and said he would back the winner of the primary? I don't hear a lot of that from most of the AAR hosts...not obvious talking points like that. He has used this issue to garner ratings, just like he has done that in the past. He had callers for days talking about how bad the DNC was doing....and agreeing with them. Why is that ok when we are fighting for our lives in the party.
This is not just liberal radio, I fear, it is just about big money. With Michaels in control of Ed's show, it is about senationalism also.