Who Needs Radio?

DragonMagic writes "MSNBC asks what many /.ers have been asking: Who needs the radio anymore? Rather, it goes on to really ask, who needs the RIAA anymore? With online music distribution sources, television, and the internet itself, how much longer will it be before the radio, and the RIAA, will be an obsolete means to promote artists?"

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Re:Translated for the America-Impaired

[jmorris42]

> There is no major national left-wing news television or radio
> network at the present time.

Which only proves you ARE a left winger/socialist (10's and 20's)/liberal (30's, - 80's, outright stealing and redefining the label which used to define free market, individual liberties folk like myself)/progressive (90's - now)/whatever new word you guys want to tarnish next.

And isn't it telling that as soon as a name becomes clearly associated with you guys you abandon it because it becomes a toxic kiss of death for any candidate not running in California, New York or Washington DC?

NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Reuters. All are far to the left of center, NPR and CNN are virtually mouthpieces for the DNC, although NPR is a little too 'progressive' even for the Democratic party sometimes.

Fox and talk radio do carry the torch for the Conservative movement to varying degrees. Talk radio tends to be unashamedly conservative while Fox tries for a little more balanced presentation. But in today's media climate even a truly unbiased news source would appear to lean conservative due to being all alone on the rightmost portion of the visible spectrum. Now I'd have no objection to news outlets being as biased as they want to be if it werent for the fact that the heavy hand of government restricts competition by limiting new TV outlets and openly subsidizing NPR/PBS.