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Sunday, February 29, 2004
Thank you, Janet Jackson 
| | Looking through the news at 4am, I notice that Clear Channel, which dominates commercial radio broadcasting in the U.S., is "suspending" Howard Stern from six of its stations as part of its "responsible broadcast initiative." An act of "decency" by a company whose market-bullying practices have been anything but. |
| | As it happens, I heard the apparently precipitating segment (involving the sleazeball who shot the video of himself having sex with Paris Hilton). It was no less "decent" (or anything) than most of the show's other segments. It was just as funny, which is why I listened. |
| | Jeff Jarvis has been all over the story (starting here), and I agree with him entirely. Also Mark Davis, a talker in Dallas who used to be one of my favorite correspondents on the old Broadcast Professionals forum on Compuserve, where I hung out for many years. |
| | Mostly I've listened to the show here in Santa Barbara from KIOZ in San Diego. That's a Clear Channel station (as are five others in that town). The other source, KLSX in Los Angeles, has a very marginal signal here (it's not L.A.'s biggest station, by a long shot), though I can get it some of the time in my car. |
| | Here's KIOZ's letter to listeners on the matter. The metamessage: The suspension is temporary and a new Howard Lite will come back after some kind of agreements are reached. More at the show's unoffical site. (The official one is worthless — Howard has always minimized the show's use of the Web, which is unfortunate.) |
| | My own take is that the FCC is working, unintentionally but very effectively, with the giant broadcasters to stifle free speech; and this is one more shovel of dirt on the coffin of Broadcasting as Usual, which will be replaced by the Net, one way or another. |
Tubing
| | Last week I was told I'll be on the Sunday Morning program on CBS today. I was interviewed (along with Dan and Tim) by David Pogue of the New York Times during the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego a couple weeks ago. We talked about a lot of stuff for quite a while, as I recall. Though I have no idea what David and his crew will use, if anything, from the interview. |
| | Woops... I see on David's main page that the segment will air on Sunday March 7, a week from today. Here's the whole posting: |
| | Set the VCR. I'll be appearing Sunday, March 7 (that's a change) on "CBS News Sunday Morning," reporting about the Internet's effect on this year's Presidential election. (The show runs 9 to 10:30 am, EST. Note that sometimes, at the last minute, segments are bumped to the following week. Check back here on Friday night to see for sure.) |
| | Okay, so consider this an advance annoucement. |
Back on the move
| | Tomorrow (Sunday — it's still Saturday as I write this) is a full-out moving day, so getting back into any kind of blogging groove is still gonna hafta wait. |
| | Had a great time in Mexico with the Linux Journal crew, by the way. There were 17 of us, flying in from all over the place. I enjoyed meeting and getting some hang time with other staffers I knew but had never met. |
| | It'll be great to get back to the new home too. Especially after we're through moving in. |
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