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Traditional Radio Endangered By New Tech
Rob wrote to mention a Reuters article discussing the danger to traditional radio posed by new new technologies. From the article: "The radio industry could find itself at the kids' table in the media banquet hall, as new technology threatens the business, advertising executives said this week at the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit. Satellite radio, digital music players and the Internet are slowly encroaching on traditional radio's stronghold on local entertainment and advertising. Plus, radio ads themselves are less memorable and creative, these executives said."
I gave up listening to NPR in about 2001. Every so often I try again but it's just the same old thing. Wake me up when they run a story that's not about the Middle East - either about Saudi oil running out, or downtrodden Iranian women architects, or about education opportunities for Afghans, or about he psychology of suicide bombers, or Persian music, or Shakespeare performed in Iran, or Kuwaiti democarcy, or American troops in Iraq, or life under the threat of terror in Israel, or Arab media bias, or bias in American reporting in the Middle East, or about the risks taken by reporters in the Middle East, or discrimination against Arabs in the US, or life on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, or whatever. What about Tonga? I'm sure stuff happens there too and it needs to be reported.