Michael Powell Resigns

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says an editorial in the WSJ.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/21/news/newsmakers/powell_resigning/

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

HOWARD STERN WINZ

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes: Michael Powell resigns!
oh no: the replacement will be much much worse!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

You got it. His rumored replacement, Kevin Martin, is much more hardcore on indecency, I'm told. ie, Ashcroft-Gonzalez all over again.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

HOWARD STERN LOZEZ

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Making room for Condi Rice's son?

― briania (briania), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

god they do not get it. breaking the stranglehold of the media multinationals is as much a benefit to cultural conservatives as it is to liberals and radicals. if LPFM etc were allowed to happen, we'd see talk radio-style media metastasize like crazy.

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the cognitive dissonance is just stunning: if you've engineered this perfect media free market, then doesn't it follow that the content is just as garish and vulgar as it should be?

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, ever listened to italian radio?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that's the trick, how can media outlets get big enough to have the power of good reporters and effective distribution, but stay small enough not to be beholden to someone/something?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There was I thinking this thread was going to be about the director of "A Matter of Life Death", "Peeping Tom" etc

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

...And actually a lot of the people who oppose media consolidation are on the right--EVERYBODY except huge media concerns hates it. I mean, the list of organizations that opposed the 2003 rulemaking included both NOW and the NRA, which does not happen very often at all.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that's the trick, how can media outlets get big enough to have the power of good reporters and effective distribution, but stay small enough not to be beholden to someone/something?

public funding, independent oversight, and a 10-year charter

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i honestly don't care too much about "indecency" shenanigans, there's always HBO and XM and the local video store (and the internets!) if you need to hear dirty words and see breasts. i think that whole issue is secondary to the decades-old suppression of broadcasting by non-zillionaires. i can understand slippery slope arguments, and i too cringe at the hypocrisy that allows real and fictional gun battles but not a nipple, and the embarrassing childishness that it betokens. but when you read an opinion column by the mr. powell in question, as i did recently, titled "striking a balance between freedom and democracy" (or something) and it's about titties rather than concentration of media ownership, it is - in this day and age - something of a let-down

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"suppression of non-zillionaire-backed broadcasting" i should say..

it's crazy! in knoxville (not exactly home to the world's most crammed radio spectrum) the feds came and took all of kfar's equipment. mixing desk, computers, transmitters, CD players, headphones, the works. and didn't arrest them or charge them with anything.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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