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WI State Journal - Making Waves: New Book Looks At Radio's Technological, Cultural Changes

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Making Waves

New Book Looks At Radio's Technological, Cultural Changes

Wisconsin State Journal :: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT :: G3
Sunday, January 21, 2007
WILLIAM R. WINEKE [email protected] 608-252-6146

You have to hand it to radio; every time some new technology comes along to make the medium seem obsolete, it rises to new heights.

Which is not to say those new heights are more spiritually lofty than the lower heights of yore might have been; but radio remains a profitable and omnipresent force in American culture.

But that might not last, warns Marc Fisher, a Washington Post columnist, in "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock and the Revolution that Shaped a Generation" (Random House: $27.95).

Despite the success of right-wing talk hosts like Rush Limbaugh and radical shock jocks like Howard Stern, radio is becoming homogenized and bland overall, he says. ...
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