There will be a Celebration of Mike Webb’s Life on July 18th.

[ConsAreLiars]

Copied from http://mikewebb.org/details.htm

A Celebration of Mike Webb’s life will be Wednesday, July 18th at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral from 7:30 – 9 PM.

Friends are welcome to give a tribute or eulogy of 2-5 minutes.

Updated information can be found at mikewebb.org

Flowers may be sent to St. Marks in Mike's name.
The family has requested memorials in Mike’s name go to The Lambert House which provides a safe place for GLBTQ youth.

Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral is located on Seattle's Capitol Hill
1245 Tenth Avenue East
Seattle, Washington 98102-4398
[phone]

[SeattleGirl]

1. Thank you.

Don't know if I'll be able to get to the memorial, but I will certainly donate to The Lambert House.

[icymist]

2. Thank you for the info.

Has anyone heard where the police investigation of Mike's murder is going? I've been really busy all last week so I might have missed something.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Last I heard, they were trying to find the "shady character" he was

seen with shortly before he went missing.

[flamingyouth]

6. The police had an APB out on a guy:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=184x12138

They gave no description to the public or anything, just that he was last seen downtown and on Capitol Hill. As maxsolomon said, he's likely long gone from the area. After all, he is a "shady character" with a criminal record. :(

[lordsummerisle]

3. Thanks for the info on that

I'll be out of town and won't be able to make it. I still can't believe he's gone...

[LisaM]

5. I'm going to try and go

I can't believe he is gone, either.

[eridani]

7. Email from poster on the Mike Webb site

FWIW--

It's been three weeks since the terrible news and I continue to be without words to describe the horrifying murder of former KIRO-AM liberal talk host Mike Webb. How could this happen? Why did it happen? What was the motivation for the murder? Was the murderer conservative or homophobic? If KIRO and the Entercom Suits had NOT fired Mike, what would be different today? Who fired Mike at KIRO, and what was their genuine reason for firing Mike? Why did they not tell listeners what the real reason was? Was the firing from PD Tom Clendening, VP Ken Beck, or GM David Preidmore? There are no answers.

I have at least three dozen email exchanges with Mike Webb talking about his firing, and how deeply he felt the loss. I don't know what to do with these passionate, personal, and very revealing emails. Webb discusses his frustrations with Entercom Officials, and, his anger with his vicious, homophobic Internet attackers (Geov Parrish, Michael Hood, and Brian Maloney). Mike marked many of them - Confidential, for your eyes only. Should I turn them over to his family?

Seattle has lost so many great talk hosts over the years. Robert E. Lee Hardwick, suicide in about 1992, over his firing at KING news/talk 1090. A suicide note left in his truck on Stevens Pass revealed frustrations with his firing. Phil Harper, suicide in about 2004, who played Harry Nile on Imagination Theater with Jim French. Not sure the reason for the suicide, but that was another 1090 casualty, Infinity dropped their Classic Country and went to a monotonous, lifeless, all-syndicated progressive talk format.


Indeed, I might add that IN TWO OF THOSE EMAILS marked "confidential," Mike said that he went to lunch with 1090 officials, and that they REALLY WANTED a local host, but that they didn't have the funding to hire him. Whatever happened to LOCAL radio with LOCAL people by LOCAL managers familiar with the LOCAL listeners? Why are BLOGGERS on opposite coasts repeatedly and obscessively writing nasty posts about LOCAL talk hosts thousands of miles away? Why do these very same bloggers attack local radio hosts, instead of highlighting (as we try to do on this forum) how these hosts serve the LOCAL community? Why do they never talk about Mike Webb's commitment to honesty and integrity in broadcasting, serving the public interest of Seattlites, by discussing LOCAL events important to Seattle and Washington State?

I guarantee - Mike WOULD NOT have been fired in THIS 1960's-1980's scenario of LOCAL programming. Neither would have the other NUMEROUS unjustified 2004-2007 ENTERCOM Casualties in Seattle, Boston, and Sacramento.

I think one thing we can all learn from Mike's Firing and these other firings:

MEDIA CONGLOMERATE MANAGERS, STOP FIRING YOUR VETERAN TALENT!

May this discussion of Media Ownernship and its tragic consequences not prevent us from seeing the Forest from the Trees here ... the legacy of MIKE WEBB will live on - FOREVER, as one of the first pioneers in Live, Local, Liberal, Passionate, Caller-Driven, talk radio, from our city, and for our very own city, - SEATTLE. Mike has both entertained and inspired many listeners politically and his broadcasts will be remembered forever. Here is info on the Celebration of Mike's life:

FROM http://mikewebb.org

"Family and friends are in shock and are trying to cope with the loss of Mike in this senseless tragedy. We believe it would be Mike's wish that this site and a progressive voice continue, so we will have details soon as to where we go from here.

"There will be a Celebration of Mike's Life on Wednesday, July 18th at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral from 7:30 – 9 PM for family, friends and fans of Mike. ..more details.

"We have re-opened the forum and you are invited to leave your thoughts. Click Here

"If you have photos of Mike you would like to share, please e-mail them to photos {at} mikewebb.org. We are putting together a tribute for Mike's service and photos would be appreciated. Thank you.

"June 29th friends and fans of Mike Webb convened for a special 2 hour memorial program on GAYBC.com. Hosted by Mike’s friend and former colleague, John McMullen, the program was a tribute to one of the great liberal voices in talk radio, with guests that included friend, colleague and webmaster of MikeWebb.org, Bob Vesely and former Mike Webb Show producer Jeremy Grater. Fans called in and shared thoughts and some of the best moments they remember from Mike’s many years on radio.

"To access the program, go to http://gaybc.com, by clicking here and selecting June 29. Thank you Gaybc for making this available to Mike Webb Friends."


Disclaimer: The previous comments are those of the moderator ONLY, and NOT necessarily those of the members of the Talk Radio Hosts yahoo groups.

tom.9.2006 <indigotalkradio {at} yahoo.com>

[regnaD kciN]

8. Geov Parrish "vicious" and "homophobic"...??? Wow...

For those not in the Seattle area, that's equivalent to denouncing Keith Olbermann as a craven apologist for the Bush regime. :eyes:

Mike was a fresh and entertaining voice -- but he did seem to have a talent for making enemies needlessly, even among those who should have been his staunchest allies. (And it's ironic that he is being memorialized at St. Mark's, considering his rarely-disguised contempt for all things Christian.)

[eridani]

9. Don't know how Geov not liking Mike translates into homophobia

Activists in this town have long memories, though. I know more than a few old lefties over the age of 80 that you can never invite to the same event because they took opposite positions on the Stalin-Hitler Pact.

[ConsAreLiars]

10. I'm pretty sure Mike would not have characterized Parrish as homophobic,

although he probably did feel offended by the Weekly articles. I think the poster just wrote a bit poorly.