Tag Archives: Media

In a way, the disembodied head is the perfect symbol for a radio DJ from the Golden Age: the invisible voice danced directly into your ear late at night in the dark, maybe hidden under a pillow as the voice – intermixed with exciting, rhythmic, forbidden music – illicitly stole …

Steven Van Zandt’s crusade on behalf of garage rock – broadly defined – has hit the big time with a huge concert festival and a syndicated radio show. He talked to the NY Times about it: To hear Steven Van Zandt tell it, he had no choice. He had simply …

I like Al Franken, although I like him much better as a humorist than as a partisan political pundit. Franken’s radio show will appear on the Sundance Channel beginning in September: “The Al Franken Show,” heard live each weekday from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on Air America Radio, will …

I’ve avoided talking about the bloggers at the DNC because thus far I hadn’t heard anything very interesting either from or about the 30 or so bloggers at the convention, other than that there are 30 or so bloggers at the convention. What’s coolest and unique about blogging – for …

If this article isn’t ghost written, then Ted Turner is one hell of a writer, as well as thinker. I have not seen the case made against corporate media consolidation made anywhere else with this clarity, logic, passion, and inside knowledge. You rule, Ted – you should have a blog. …

We are very appreciative of Scott Pepper’s on-the-scene photos from the Democratic National Convention in Boston, but inquiring minds want to know why he has thus far avoided the BIGGEST STORY OF THE CONVENTION – the Great Media Porta-potty Controversy: As the majority of the print reporters arrived Saturday at …

Low power FM radio, a truly democratic use of the radio spectrum, was greatly inhibited when introduced in 2000 by restrictions placed on it under pressure from commercial broadcasters (and NPR), who claimed it would interfere with their signals in urban areas. A study ordered by Congress showed these claims …

Though I agree the Dixie Chicks were inordinately dumped on for their anti-Bush statements last year (not the least of which by opportunists like Clear Channel with agendas of their own that had little or nothing to do with “patriotism” or “supporting the troops”), those who have continued to claim …

I imagine it is perversely appropriate that high quality audio Internet radio appears to have arrived in conjunction with air-tight copy-protection. BlueBeat.com: The service features over 400,000 tracks of near CD-quality in over 100 genres and 320 channels, covering more than a century of music, and streams secure MP3s at …

There are two issues here: the first is the continued perversity of Ted Rall, but that’s nothing new. The second is a call for consistency on the part of the mainstream civil rights and other African-American advocacy organizations, to wit: Because of the racially-insensitive content of a recent cartoon, members …