What's unfortunate is that radio's current woes are being used as an excuse to spout marketplace-idolatry dogma, when it is that dogma that got us where we are in the first place.
Applying deregulation logic to a naturally regulated medium like radio since Mark Fowler's FCC chairmanship in the Reagan days is what gave us 1) the destruction of commercial radio news and localism 2) the idea that talk radio belongs to one ideological/demographic segment 3) bland programming that drove away Gen X and failed to engage Gen Y in the first place ... etc etc.
What's unfortunate about class warfare rhetoric is that so many "paycheck people' in radio and other industries don't realize it's already begun -- and they're losing.
Applying deregulation logic to a naturally regulated medium like radio since Mark Fowler's FCC chairmanship in the Reagan days is what gave us 1) the destruction of commercial radio news and localism 2) the idea that talk radio belongs to one ideological/demographic segment 3) bland programming that drove away Gen X and failed to engage Gen Y in the first place ... etc etc.
What's unfortunate about class warfare rhetoric is that so many "paycheck people' in radio and other industries don't realize it's already begun -- and they're losing.