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Clear channel bites

June 20, 2003

In this weekend’s NY Times Magazine, Walter Kirn opines on Clear Channel. You used to be able to do that in America: chart your course by the accents, news and songs streaming in from the nearest AM transmitter. A drawling update on midday cattle prices meant I was in Wyoming or Nebraska. A guttural rant [...]

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Me and Safire seeing eye to eye?

June 16, 2003

William Safire’s column in the NY Times today is a rare case of the old bastard making some sense. Check out his ramblings on the recent FCC decision. (The FCC decision) troubles some readers, listeners and viewers who don’t like homogenized news or one-size-fits-all entertainment forced down their throats. When I inveighed against this impending [...]

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Faux news

June 13, 2003

The Weak Planet has a decent article on Fox News this week. Written by some guy in Charlotte. …the scariest thing about Fox and Rupert Murdoch, the thing that renders them all fear and no fun in a time of national crisis, is that they channel for the Bush administration as faithfully as if they [...]

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