[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

Some interesting points are raised in the CL article - the racial 
politics for instance, and the role that Cox plays in all of this. The 
implication is that the AJC doesn't want NPR talk to gain a foot-hold 
in town because it would represent serious competition for the AM 750 
right-wing talk juggernaut, and they are using their local 
media-monopoly status to prevent it from ever happening. Two stations 
are indeed the best solution, but as I said, it ain't going to happen 
any time soon. And speaking for myself, given the choice, I would 
rather have more intelligent, objective talk during the day - directly 
opposite the AM talk-Nazis - than a continual stream of the same old 
classical warhorses.

And that Roswell High School expulsion thing makes me want to puke. But 
at least Rachel Boim is getting a REAL education out of all of this - 
in spite of the best efforts of the Fulton Co. school board!

Regarding art & music in the schools, I once heard John Frohnmayer 
speak (during the height of the early 90s skirmishes in the ongoing 
culture wars). He said something that really stuck with me. He said how 
the education system in this country is so obsessed with easily 
quantifiable left-brain learning - math, sciences, etc., that it all 
but ignores the right brain - the abstract, creative half - because 
that sort of learning can't be measured on tests. But in order to truly 
serve the children of this country and enable them to reach their full 
potential, we need to nurture BOTH halves of the brain. Of course this 
was the same guy who bowed to right-wing pressure and rescinded the 
grants of four controversial performance artists (three gay and one 
feminist), but that's another thread!

AWG

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