RE: WBUR takes on Clear Channel

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

That's a cheap shot Paul and you know it.   NPR doesn't own a single 
station, they're all voluntary affiliates.   For that matter, NPR does not 
require member stations to exclusively carry NPR programming (as opposed 
to, say, PRI) as is common in the commercial world.

- Aaron



At 01:13 PM 4/1/2003 -0500, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
>I guess my least favorite would be NPR
>
>Paul Hopfgarten
>East Derry NH 03041
>paul@03038.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Mark
> > Laurence
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:23 AM
> > To: BRI; Brian Vita
> > Subject: Re: WBUR takes on Clear Channel
> >
> >
> > On 1 Apr 2003 at 7:38, Brian Vita wrote:
> >
> > > > But it adds fuel to the arguments that mega-corporations
> > > > should not be allowed to grow even bigger.  If one corporation could
> > > > own half the radio stations in every major market in the country -
> > > > and the daily newspaper too - it would have one heck of an
> > > > overpowering voice.
> > > >
> > > How is this any different from the Clinton bias that CNN had or the
> > > Bush bias that Fox has?
> >
> > How is it different?  You're focused on two cable networks which are
> > relatively small parts of their corporate parents.  As Dan said, there's
> > nothing intrinsically wrong with a corporation taking a point of view
> > and expressing it on its channels.
> >
> > But what if they own most of the channels?  Choose your least favorite
> > news organization and imagine that its owners bought the Globe,
> > channels 4, 5, 25, 38, and 68, all the Infinity radio stations, all the
> > Entercom stations, CNN, MSNBC, and half the other cable stations,
> > DirecTV, many of the major magazines, and controlled half the
> > websites where people normally go for news.  It might be a little tough
> > to hear your point of view if you had to listen to this detested
> > heavyweight corporation speaking with one voice on all those stations
> > and outlets.
> >
> > We're halfway there now.  The proposed FCC regulations could create a
> > media world that looks just like that.
> >
> > Mark Laurence
> >


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