[lbo-talk] Broadcast News

[ylle521 at highstream.net]

Re McChesney, commercial radio was the first, and so far most 
prominent victim of the Telecommunications Act in '96.   How bad it 
is is most notable in the hinterlands.    Also sounds like you were 
sampling the AM band, aka Radio Hell.

At 02:20 AM 8/18/2006, you wrote:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > What's the matter with America?
>
>While driving last week on a long-distance journey through the US
>heartland, I kept flipping the radio in a vain attempt to stave off
>boredom. Occasionally I'd get a scratchy CBS affiliate here and there. I'd
>hear the usual entertainment-masquerading as news, and then a sudden,
>jarring sound bite: "The Pentagon reports that a major leader responsible
>for recent terror attacks in Baghdad was captured today..." Click. Some
>preacher, ranting about end times. Click. Some tinhorn military life-form
>yelping about Islamofascism on Fox. Click. Schmaltzy big band music from
>the 1950s. Click.
>
>It was like the sonic equivalent of the hotel in "The Shining". All those
>endless corridors and identical rooms, opening into madness... only this
>wasn't the madness of the Empire's beginning. It was the madness of its
>end.
>
>-- DRR
>
>
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