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Isn't some media localism a little retro?

Submitted by Soren Dayton on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 09:49
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Two weeks ago, a friend from Austin noted that he drives to work listening to his favorite Dallas radio station growing up. He listens to it over internet radio over his iPhone, which is them plugged into the auxillary jack on his car radio.

Yet the left is pushing a media localism agenda. Weird. I mean, I am not sure that I have particular problems with this particular bill. But there seems something kind of retro about it.

 

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This is all about attackin talk radio

Submitted by franklinslocke on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 12:47.

 

 I do the same thing at work. I found radio stations over the internet in WV and UT that I like. I don’t live near any of them. There is nothing local about Boise. The localism issue is an attempt to limit the stations that will carry syndicated talk shows. They are also interested in looking at limiting religious radio. This is there attempt to quiet down the Conservative and religious radio. These agendas counter the Left in ideology and politics and want it silenced or least limited. It has nothing to with diversity of ownership or use of the airwaves to serve the people. That is a retro debate. The scarcity debate does not exist with digital, cable, and the internet. If they are successful here, then they will try this on TV and anywhere else they to try to silence or limit dissent. These people cannot stand groups and people who disagree with their politics.  http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/

 

You miss the whole point..

Submitted by Jim Dandy to th... on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 14:50.

..of localism.  No matter what the delivery method is, whether it's AM radio playing in the kitchen or XM or Sirius in a BMW, unless more attention is paid to fostering local voices on local broadcasts, all there will be is spam/wallpaper media syndication.

I drove from Mobile to Huntsville once on business, with many stops along the way, and it was like a blanket of right-wing syndicated shows.  I would drive out of range of one signal, and there would be Limbaugh or Hannity or Boortz on the next town's radio station without skipping a beat.

Never mind that these were not local voices, or even that the controls for the transmitter and audio board were being run on a technician's desk hundreds of miles away, and all he did was click on the feed and attach it to his transmitter's input, and then watch for the local ad spots to pot in and out as the show progressed.

About 60-80% of nationwide radio programming content now is controlled and run by less than a dozen powerhouse media conglomerates, who also happen to own local broadcast and cable TV stations, and local newspapers and magazines, and whose leaders and senior executives happen to be Bush fundraisers and Conservative pro-corporate, pro-business, pro-right wing activists.

Let's not pretend that the GOP or the Conservative Movement, which has worked closely with outfits like Salem, Sinclair, and Citadel for years, have anything but their own political interests in mind when they send out errand boys like Pence and DeMint as pointmen in the all-out effort to keep right-wing radio on the air and on right-wing message.

I like the idea of limitations on media monopolies, for both sides.  I don't like the idea of either Murdoch or anybody else being able to exert control over our News via outfits like FOX, the WSJ, the NY Post, or that a guy like Reverened Sun Myung Moon be able to have his Washington Times paper print and say his, and only his opinions just because he managed to become a billionaire

I think it's bad for our Democracy.

Anything

Submitted by lgm on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 07:27.

Whatever it takes to clense the airwaves of Hannity and Limbaugh and the other syndicated hate mongers (literally -- selling hate). 

Talk about radio

Submitted by Chris Brown on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 07:05.

I do the same thing at work. I found radio stations over the internet but now i am doing it while i am preparing for my 1z0-042 certification and listening music on radio and i will carry it till i pass my 350-001 certification along with the 350-018 certification and i hope to pass them in first attempt and i will come here again to discuss it further in details, any way i like the stuff on your page.as you are doing really nice job.