At the rate of consolidation of the big three — corporate radio, NPR, and religious radio — independent radio may go the way of the eight-track tape. Of what concern is that of ours? Well, do you want to listen to only what music the bean counters deem fit or that “counts” well? News filtered [...]
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From time to time, we are wont to pontificate about the conservative agitprop concerning the “liberal media” and all the accompanying absurdist proclamations that have led through the years, ultimately, to an emasculated form of “journalism” at best. The following piece by Lisa Pease, entitled “What a ‘Liberal Media’ Might Look Like,” came to us [...]
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In Massachusetts, the site for Jobs with Justice and one of our sister Facebook sites, Supporters of Folk and Blues on WGBH (here), is passing the word about extraordinary demands management is making of workers — after giving themselves bonuses: Workers at WGBH, our local public television and radio stations, are fighting for the basic [...]
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Few posts stir as much interest as those taking NPR itself to task for what public radio is becoming and what changes NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have wrought in the public’s name. Criticism generally falls within — but is not limited to — several general categories. The homogenization of programming content — [...]
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It is categorically wrong for public money to be used to subsidize a monopoly such as iBiquity, proprietary licensor of HD radio. Millions of dollars of funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have been used to promote the spread of HD radio by grants to local public radio stations for conversion to a substandard [...]
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