[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

 
Dear Allen, 

I am with you on all points. 

WABE has always been cautious to the point of chickenshit.  Their philosophy
seems the same as the printed AJC: "Offend No One."  It is the bland leading
the bland. 

WSB is the precise opposite: Offend Anyone, as long as it's not a
corporation.  

I too would like to see WABE have more talk-programming, but apart from
theirtimidity there is the question of cost.  Those shows are more costly
than just running Wall-to-Wall Pachelbel. 

And even if they chose to put on more talk, I have noticed that NPR itself
has become very much more cautious in the past two decades.  Their news is
far more diluted than it used to be: more time on soft news, like local bake
sales in Iowa, more time on sports, more time on self-promotion.  I can
understand this.  Gingrich wanted to vaporize them and almost succeeded. 

Allow me to suggest WRFG 89.3 FM.  A truly great station.  All kinds of
music, and unabashedly anti-corporate news (Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio
News, Labor Forum, etc.) 

Also good is WREK 91.1 FM.  World music and frequent (though unpredictable)
talk shows of all kinds. 

  

Paul Schumacher 

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  >From: Allen Welty-Green >Reply-To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To:
atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: WABE >Date: Mon, 27
Oct2003 20:21:08 -0500 >>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
afoot-hold >in town because it would represent serious competition for the
AM750 >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
>atleast 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
heightof 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
ontests. But in order to truly >serve the children of this country and
enablethem 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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