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Public Radio Exchange Site Launches
TheSync writes "The Public Radio Exchange web site has opened its doors. Radio show producers can sign up to upload programming for peer-review and electronic distribution to public radio stations that like the content. Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming. PRX just received a $1.5 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and they are looking for a summer intern in Boston."
. . . if this will use a DRM laden, proprietary format like NPR does. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with donation and tax-subsidized radio being locked up in these sorts of formats?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Clear Channel dropped Howard Stern from my local radio stations. I used to listen every morning while getting ready at home. Maybe we can do live streams of radio from all over the country via this protocol, and I can get through Clear Channel's "indecency measures."
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This post seems a little too late. I work at a public radio station in ohio and have been using PRX for about 5 months or so now. I wonder why it took so long for this to be posted.
The application should contain
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"3) A suggestion on where Site Editor Brendan Greeley should live in Boston. He just moved here and needs an apartment."
Funny
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Have you noticed if this has caused some programming not to be aired? In a way, this reviewing could end up censoring some programming if too many people think it shouldn't be aired for whatever reason. Some may think a particular program would be too edgy for their area and vote it as being "bad".
I'll admit that it was kind of funny but I don't see any real insight, unless the mods love his sig so much.
I have been working for the company for past half a year and you finally notice us? Damn...!
A bit OT, but are there any indexes or search engines for online radio content?
Seems to me online radio once had a lot of potential, maybe still does, but has gone nowhere in the past few years. I thought it would pick up with every man and his dog carrying an MP3 player, but apparently not.
Fortunately, the US does not practice rule-by-uneducated-mobs.
Pledge of Allegiance (removing "under God")
In other words, putting it back the way it was originally. Except that "under God" isn't removed yet, so your argument there holds no water.
Yes, and if voting by the populace were the way that we made all decisions, women wouldn't be able to vote and southern schools would still be segregated.
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Fortunately, the founders of the nation were smarter than its members, and made something called the Constitution. Liberals have this whacky idea that the consitution should be followed (although some of them have funny ideas about the 2nd amendment) and as such, tend to go up against the majority of Americans who seem to think the consitution is more convenient as a piece of toilet paper.
Will introduce you to the high-powered, creatively satisfying, poorly compensated world of public radio. May compensate you. May also not compensate you. Will provide you with an immediate list of marginally interesting things to do, a list that will grow exponentially more interesting as we discover how competent you are. Will offer exposure to people who are famous, or at least as famous as you can be if you got famous by being on public radio.
Subsitute /public radio/ with /your job here/
Hey, at least they're honest.
Hard-left radio stations have been using the A-Infos Radio Project and the IMC Radio Project for some time to distribute content. The quality of the productions range from excellent to useless, much like anything else. The productions are almost all politically-oriented, so not having read the article (a grand Slashdot tradition), I don't know if PRX also carries a larger proportion of music and PSAs.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
That's why they use judges and lawyers and lawsuits to push their agenda.
2nd amendment would be long gone too.
Judges and lawsuits are not used exclusively by liberals. The simple fact is that when we have so many laws, they are going to contradict each other on many occasions. We need judges to decide those situations; lawsuits are the means for these resolutions.
We acknowledge that the state shall not establish religion (as stated by the constitution), a law requiring the daily recitation of "under god" might be just that which is banned, so there is a lawsuit.
Our constitution also requires equal treatment under the law. Many believe that allowing marriage of breeders but not allowing it for gays is not equal, particularly with all of the financial implications of marriage. Personally I think that we need to get government out of marriage all together, but if we can't do that, opening up to gays is the only constitutionally legal action we can take, regardless of the opinion of the majority.
I happen to agree with you about the abortion thing, but that is not because I against a woman's right to choose, it is because I am for the right of the fetus to choose.
I can't remember who said this, but I am going to paraphrase it:
The most important reason for the bill of rights is to prevent a tyranny of the majority.
You better believe that (tyranny) is what we would have if we had strict majority rule, it would be a disaster for freedom.
Finally if the people are so overwhelmingly against something, the forefathers insightfully included a technique for the revision of our constitution.
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming.
I've seen a lot of comparisons to NPR, but from the description in the news bit (I can't load the prx.com website for some reason), it seems to run with a philosophy a bit more comparable to Pacifica - a public radio foundation that is run with active participation from listeners. With the level of listener involvement apparently available, I can't really see the NPR comparison.
I decided to go sig-less and am so excited, I had to tell you about it!
Radio4all and Indymedia have been providing space to upload radio programs for years. And they don't even charge stations to download the shows.
I would estimate the yearly expenses of those projects to be an order of magnititude less than $1.5m. Oneworld Radio also offers upload space for programs and is networked internationally. I would guess their costs are a bit less than $1.5m but in a similar ballpark.
k. i'll bite. Please check those that apply to you:
[] i like loud, obnoxious shock-jocks that aren't qualified to make any social commentary beyond the fact that they have a mouth...a loud one.
[] i like crappy, teenybopper-14-yr-old songs.
[] i like to hear the 400000 times a day....
[] i LOVE shitty radio commercials that run all day long...
the list goes on from there.....shut up and don't listen, don't give and get lost.
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[] Slavery is good - it employs people and increases profit.
[] Human life is a cheap and necessary cost of doing business.
[] Global resources exist to benefit the few, the wealthy.
[] First come, first serve.
[] Winner takes all.
[] Those folks are lucky to be working at Megamart.
[] Government exists to serve the wealthy.
[] Property is a god-given right.
[] Rich people need more tax breaks.
[] If we can't win with advertising, win with intimidation and violence.
[] We need to spend more money on weapons to protect our ill-begotten gains.
[] The rest of the world exists to serve.
[] Justice comes from the barrel of a gun.
Just so you guys know I'm libertarian, because I think you guys thought I was a conservative.
So, from now on, reply accordingly. Because assuming makes an ass out of u and ming.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
1. PRX does not distribute music. As you all know, this is a sticky subject and thus conveniently outside of our brief.
2. As befits a publicly-funded site, anyone can listen to pieces and offer a review. We encourage it. Like the great Soviet enterprise we are, we demand it. Submit.
3. It is possible to believe strongly in both public radio and the free market. They are not mutually exclusive, nor is public broadcasting the sole province of liberals.
4. PRX is not Internet radio. We use a web platform to allow nonprofit radio stations to browse for content that they can license, download and broadcast.
5. We're in the midst of rethinking how parts of the site work, particularly the search function and reviews/moderation. We welcome comments. The relationship between the popular vote and the judiciary may or may not be germane to this discussion but hey, it's your Constitution too.
Have you ever listened to NPR? Or do you just regurgitate what FOX News tells you? Because that's really a source of non-biased coverage. You know, just because people keep saying the media is liberal doesn't make it true.
NPR is probably one of the more interesting news agencies out there. You'll here stories there that you won't hear anywhere else. Not because of a political stance, but because they are not trying to get ratings to get advertisers. There stories are much more interesting for those with half a brain.
Besides, the current administration deserves as much heat as can be brought on them. They've gotten a very easy ride from this supposed liberal media.
/. is a bunch of nerds at a million typewriters. It's not a political conspiracy determined to undermine your beliefs.
(Translation, for the humor impaired libertarians out there): Have you bean-counting Ayn Rand junkies really become so dehumanized that you think societal funding for the arts is something that should be destroyed? Does anyone really need to remind you that most of what we consider the great works of art of the ages have been produced with what can be called public funding, whether that be from the pockets of the Medicis, the spoils of the Roman Empire, or the coffers of the Catholic Church?
Ah! But that's right, I forgot -- you guys are the morons who'd like to see my whole block burn down because I forgot to grease my local private firefighter, and have the cops check my wife's RFID tags to make sure her account's been paid before they prevent her from getting raped. Life must sure be great in the mechanized profit-center planet you guys dream about living on. Unfortunately, your fantasy land is worth just about as much as any other pipe dream, so save it for your next Mensa meeting and leave the politics to people who can remember that government is designed to serve human beings, not balance sheets.
Breakfast served all day!
And lest we forget, most recently it was the neo-cons who decided those Fourth and Fifth Amendment things got in the way of fighting terror, so they got a law passed that basically ignored them. We'll search you when we want and where we want, and hold you in prison with no lawyer, no trial date, no charges, no nothing, until Jesus comes again.
So, the liberals want the Second Amendment gone, the conservatives want the First, Fourth, and Fifth gone, and Lincoln wiped out the Ninth and Tenth with the Army of the Potomac. Your Constitution, your Bill of Rights - void where prohibited by law.
...and you run and you run and you can't stop what's been done...
So you decide to use such "unbiased" sources as Eric Alterman and "workingforchange.com" to refute the media bias accusations?
Someone please mod this up as funny.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.