Category Archives: Death of Old Media

WMFE (Orlando, Florida) sells PBS TV station to save radio station

Story WMFE is selling its PBS TV station to DayStar for $5 million.    Contributions to the TV station are down 40% since 2007, and corporate giving (from those greedy immoral capitalist pigs) is off even more. Their NPR station is facing the … Continue reading

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Westwood One warns of potential default

http://www.radio-info.com/news/westwood-one-missed-filing-its-yearly-10-k-report-with-the-sec You know that any company that has to pay 15% to borrow money must be in a risky business.  Westwood One syndicates Jim Bohannon, Dennis Miller and Doug Urbanski, but its main involvement has been with NCAA athletetics. According … Continue reading

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All the news fit to Yahoo!

These days, the comment sections of the traditional media outlets seem to struggle to get a few useful comments…..    But I think I see a new record now on Yahoo!  (at least for newsy news)….  Drudge linked to the story … Continue reading

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If you went to the bar and got drunk today…

If you quit your job and loaded up on Jack Daniels to celebrate that Barack Obama had sought political sanctuary in Paris and the birthers were right after all….   just remember the #1 rule of the Internet – if it’s … Continue reading

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What Public Radio can be

…if it wasn’t spending all its money buying NPR programs and paying its “executives” $300k a year… http://www.wfwm.org/video/depot2009/Hanna_Livingston/video_large.html If you’re on a slow internet connection, you may want to use their main page: http://www.wfwm.org/

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Democracy? Suckers!

The top priority of the brand new government in Egypt is to make participation in a protest a crime punishable by a year in prison. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1849903.html http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/374819 Weird, the Western press don’t seem to know or care.

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The 1-7 scale for nuclear safety incidents

The IAEA Web Site The criteria for the various levels – Fukushima #1 is now at 6+ The manual explaining the scale is available here

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John Batchelor “gets it”

I just listened to last night’s show (9 pm-1am ET).  He was basically covering the same news events I was blogging, live on the air.   John had relevant reporters and exports on the line, and was watching Twitter from reputable … Continue reading

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All your Radio Stations are belong to us

They’ve dotted all the T’s and Crossed all the I’s.   Barring a DoJ antitrust problem, Cumulus will be acquiring Citadel for $2.5 billion in cash and Cumulus Stock. There are 4 distinct pieces to the proposed Cumulus / Citadel radio … Continue reading

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Mark Dayton & the Three Generation Rule

George Draper Dayton (born 1857) bought a department store in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902 after making money in banking.    George Draper Dayton had two sons – David Draper Dayton (born 1880) and George Nelson Dayton (born 1886).    Generation #1 George Draper was quite … Continue reading

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NPR under assault

NPR loyalists are reported to be in disarray following a dastardly sneak attack by the Tea Party Freedom Fighters. Reliable sources state that the loyalist supporters are preparing defenses against the onslaught of their underground bunkers and are requested urgent … Continue reading

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Qadaffi is a socialist

It’s not a coincidence or some accident that the “rebels” identify themselves by flying the flag of the “old” country of Libya. Libya is a country made up of around 140 distinct tribes of various origins.  The Senussi tribe of Eastern … Continue reading

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News from the front lines

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Time on Libya

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057622,00.html At least it includes some recognition of World War II history in the area, and a quote from George Patton… One of the best descriptions I’ve read so far. Libya also has a Navy – at some point, you … Continue reading

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The Crusades – part II

The recap of history in the Defense vs Offense post is still very Eurocentric – while Homer was writing about the Trojan wars, China had its own civilization developing that wasn’t based on the Law of Moses. Nomads who had crossed … Continue reading

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