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 == Mike Corrado == 

 I don't know why this isn't in here, but I want someone to tell me that the second- it going in the article. 

 There was a HUGE controversy with Ryan Seacrest and Mike Corrado.  Corrado is a Marine that were serving in Iraq and wrote this song, ""On My Watch Tonight"" that was on a great album by the Mike Corrado Band.  The local radio station 96.3 (based out of New Bern, NC) started playing the single on the air and it became the number one requested song.  The morning show djs tried to get attention to this single because of it's overwhelming success, and tried to get Ryan Seacrest to play the song in his show.  Ryan Seacrest gaffed them off.  The morning show started an initiative to try to get the listeners of 96.3 to start calling his show and requesting the song, over and over, and that still didn't work.  Apparently, during this time, Ryan Seacrest was overheard at a party talking bad about Marines because of this whole issue, and it was very ill-received (considering most people know a Marine in one way or another) and that brought even more heat to the issue.  The DJs at 96.3 tried to raise $100,000 to buy a full page ad in the LA Times to tell this story to Hollywood, and they didn't raise enough money, so instead, they started this initiative that they dubbed, ""Pay it Forward"".  They bought 1,000 copies of the album this song was on, gave them out with petitions, and asked listeners to listen to the cd, sign their name on the petition, and pass it on to a friend.  The friend should repeat the process until 10 names are on the Petition and then send the cd and petition to the Oprah Winfrey show.  The hope was that in some way, Oprah owns Seacrest or his show or something, and would help Corrado by making Ryan take back the bad things he said about Marines, and publicize this great song.   

 The whole thing was huge news in the Camp Lejeune area.  I did my due-diligence, listened to the cd, and passed it on to another person.  I just remember it being such big news, and the word Seacrest being known as a four-letter-word.  I can not believe that this is not on here.  I can not find any more information that is a reliable source on the issue past the article written by the Jacksonville Daily News, which is no longer online, but quoted in it's entirety on The Mike Corrado Press Site.  When this whole thing was going down, the radio stations in Coastal Carolina did a major reorganization and I don't know what happened to the DJs that were behind this initiative, because most of the morning shows changed in that area. 

 I think this is extremely notable and should be on his article, at least in part.  Can someone tell me why it is not?   "