Text of My E-mail to AM950 MOJO Radio in Houston
Here is a Link to the Station Manager. Stop screwing around with these guys directly. Take the beef to their station manager, Clear Channel, and their advertisers.
It is rare that “professionals” in broadcasting or journalism would display such contempt towards bloggers and other writers on the internet as Walton and Johnson have shown to the readers and writers at Say Anything Blog. They flat out plagarized a post by a contributor at SAB, but when it was pointed out, decided to double down and send out profane and rude e-mails to the folks that complained.
Simply having a show that is “on the edge” and “appeals to adult men” with whatever humor they profess to use is one thing. Using other people’s work and passing it off as their own is another.
Clear Channel and this station have ethical standards as do most professionals in broadcasting. These hosts apparently do not. Consistently the webmaster as well as contributors at Say Anything Blog have tried to simply get an acknowledgement and an appology from the hosts and they have sent e-mails back that included statements as shockingly unprofessional as “fuck off”.
While the bloggers and readers of blogs out there may not be in your general area or folks that your advertisers are specifically targetting, the next step should the hosts fail to appologize and attribute the work to the appropriate author will be to begin contacting advertisers and contacting representatives of Clear Channel themselves.
Thank you for your prompt response and attention to this matter.