If you were to shake the ol’ Reverend’s family tree vigorously enough you’d be sure to have a few shady characters drop out of it, and at least a couple of outright con men. And some of their insights have been passed along through family lore. One of those is to be sure that you [...]
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This post, “Radio’s digital dilemma: broadcasting in the 21st century,” on the University of Illinois website, pretty much says it all — Big Money (and NPR) muscled compliant FCC into a system designed to make a few people rich and thwart competition, ends up being trash: The interaction of policy and technological development in the [...]
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NATIONAL PENTAGON RADIO This morning NPR’s Morning Edition did a piece about an Iraqi woman, described as fiction (so one wonders why this would appear on a “news” program), who says when she saw the American troops coming to invade she “cried tears of joy” (listen here if you want to hear propaganda so extreme [...]
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A correspondent sent this link along about the latest developments in HD radio, along with a scathing commentary about what this latest insanity portends: From http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-11302011.html this morning (11/30): Improving HD Radio reception is the goal of an FCC Public Notice on “Asymmetric sideband operations”, and now we’ve got the comment dates. Comments are due by [...]
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THE EMPIRE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT The propagandists of NPR began their Morning Edition program this morning by describing yesterday’s Occupy Wall Street protesters as “mostly peaceful.” This is the way they discredit the movement, by insinuating that one should expect violence from those opposed to corporate greed at any cost. [...]
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On Thursday, November 18, 1999, the world lost one of its most unique and wonderful characters. Whether you called him Sir Doug, The Texas Tornado, or maybe even Wayne Douglas, there was only one Douglas Wayne Sahm. A musical prodigy, he made his first radio appearance at age five and recorded his first record at [...]
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Listening to Diane Rehm on NPR yesterday, we noticed she had on a guest from one of the corporate-funded think tanks, as she usually does, telling us Social Security is going broke. He didn’t mention that the government has actually borrowed from Social Security for decades in order to finance corporate welfare, and nobody on the [...]
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John Anderson of DIYmedia.net (link on right) has kept abreast of the debacle that has been HD radio, and this latest post, reprinted in its entirety, pretty much sums it up. How can this company, with no basic income, still be around — particularly given the hopelessness of its product and prospects: HD Radio Still [...]
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NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday had the Hoover Institution’s Russell Roberts on to tell us we have to cut Social Security and Medicare to balance the budget. The Hoover institution, like the other corporate-funded think tanks appearing so often on NPR, the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, etc., are funded to [...]
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The LUV Newsletter carried this small piece today on the “fair and balanced” reporting of NPR: Cuban news has a good piece this morning showing how censorship works in the USA, reminiscent of Michael Parenti’s invitation to appear on NPR. Parenti was asked by a woman, impressed by him at a party, if he would [...]
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