RE: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Radio stations have always made their own playlists.  Is
this really any different from a station manager that hates
Bob Dylan and never plays any of his songs?  What are you
going to do, pass "equal time" legislation so that every
song must be played once before you can ever repeat one?

I think this falls under the category of "overreacting".

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Sanchez [mailto:DSanchez@fcci-group.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:37 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe
> 
> 
> The fallout continues.  It's hard enough to fight government 
> censorship
> and threats to civil liberties, but what can we do when a company
> controls a public media (it owns over 1,200 radio stations) and
> exercises it's own brand of censorship?   And where will it 
> stop?  When
> a company this size has quasi-governmental power over the public
> airwaves, how do you ensure the public's stake?
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/18/1228210.shtml
> 
>