Re: Stern: Bona fide News Program

[Michael Beaulieu <mbeaulie@admin.umass.edu>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Stern: Bona fide News Program


<snip>.  Howard's show is
> almost all talk, he has guests, he asks them questions, they answer, he
> asks follow-up questions.  That's a news interview program.  <snip>

But Aaron... that's just an interview program. No news involved.

>
> Besides, you're gonna tell me that Fox News (or Pacifica Radio, if you're
> of the opposite political bent) is not one step away from sensationalistic
> drivel a three-year-old could do better?

Well, a three year old could do better but both Fox and Pacifica have news
programs.

> At Howard doesn't have any
> illusions that while he is doing news, he's really about the entertainment
> value of preaching to the coverted.


So does this mean he's not bona-fide?
 Joseph, Dan...what's the legal spin on being bona-fide?

Mike Beaulieu