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Skinnin’ the Rubes

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:50:57 +0000

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 [...]

R.I.P.

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:20:02 +0000

http://youtu.be/3vAWqBiiYWo

Featured in the Bonus Tracks Disc available with the Martin Scorsese's Living in The Material World Deluxe Edition

DvG2: KDRP Takes on Clear Channel

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:32:01 +0000

It’s springtime in the Texas Hill Country. Bluebonnets are blooming and new-borne critters are rustling through the underbrush. Over in Austin, the South by Southwest festivities are drawing down and the students are coming back from Spring Break. But out in the little community of Dripping Springs, a battle is brewing, a battle over the [...]

Engineer-Speak for “Dud”

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:59:02 +0000

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 [...]

Glenn Greenwald on Real Reporting

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:38:54 +0000

What NPR means by “reporting” By Glenn Greenwald A video art work displays Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel (Credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty) It is well worth listening to a 4-minute NPR story from this morning (embedded in linked story) on the grave and growing menace of “state-sponsored Terrorism” from [...]

Love Stinks

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:53:47 +0000

I’ve had the blues, The reds and the pinks One thing for sure Love stinks ! —J Geils Band It’s Valentine’s Day again, that wonderful super sweet holiday designed just for the lover in all of us .The one day of the year dedicated to that most special of all emotions, the one thing that [...]

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:26:32 +0000

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 [...]

Hip Deep in the Big Muddy of HD Radio

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:10:44 +0000

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 [...]

NPR Plays Lapdog During Occupy Protests

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:36:00 +0000

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. [...]

WRVU Notes from the Front

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:04:50 +0000

Dear Friends of WRVU, I know it has been quiet lately, worse than quiet, perhaps, in Nashville where the endless classical music on 91.1 FM pretends that everything is A-OK. The turmoil behind the scenes, however, rages on. Fine WRVU DJs have been banned from the online station in a shockingly transparent mass-elimination of those [...]