Re: Clear Channel expose coming to PBS this weekend...

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 08:19 PM 4/24/2002, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>Chris Beckwith wrote:
>>Why Do So Many Radio Stations Play the Same Songs?
>>
>>NOW With Bill Moyers Takes A Look At What Radio Has Become in the Age of
>>Media Consolidation
>>Coverage includes interview with T Bone Burnett airing on Friday, April 26
>>at 9:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)
>>
>>Stations on autopilot, air personalities churning out programs that
>>listeners think are local, and cookie cutter play lists across the country
>>are the new reality for radio. This week NOW with Bill Moyers reports on
>>current radio industry business practices and why some critics suggest the
>>variety of music available for listeners has sharply declined over the past
>>decade.
>
>Sigh.  This thread again.  People have been whining about the industry 
>going to pot since the demise of old time radio and maybe before.  I guess 
>if you repeat something often enough it becomes credible.

Hey, it worked for...
Bill "I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton,
Bill "We are NOT a monopoly" Gates,
O.J. "I did NOT kill my wife" Simpson,
President "Al Gore did NOT get more votes" Dubya,
Mumia "I did NOT shoot that cop" Abu-Jamal
Maureen "Mumia DID shoot that cop" Faulkner

and my personal favorite:
Ted "This is NOT a toupee" Koppel

Okay, I made that last one up entirely but I had you for a second there, 
eh?  :-)

But seriously, repeating something often enough will make it "true" in the 
mind's eye....that's SOP in psychological warfare, and in 
advertising/marketing for that matter.   How many old-timers have told an 
embellished story to the grandkids so many times they've forgotten how it 
really went?


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