Welcome! Once a journalist, always a journalist. I left the news business to try something completely different (for a time), but realized I still felt the need to keep up with all that's going on around us. So, this blog emerged as a way for me to filter some of what I feel is important, interesting or funny and pass it along to you. Enjoy! And, feel free to comment on any post.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Radio Troubles
In case you don't know, radio's in a bit of trouble around America. Ya got yer mergers. Ya got yer consolidations. Ya got yer corporate ownership. And, ya got yer lack of balanced voices.
In June 2007, the Center for American Progress and Free Press released a report titled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.” It found that, of the radio stations owned by the five top commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming on those stations was conservative. Only 9 percent was [...]
Radio Troubles
In case you don't know, radio's in a bit of trouble around America. Ya got yer mergers. Ya got yer consolidations. Ya got yer corporate ownership. And, ya got yer lack of balanced voices.
In June 2007, the Center for American Progress and Free Press released a report titled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.” It found that, of the radio stations owned by the five top commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming on those stations was conservative. Only 9 percent was [...]
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