more on Kroc money

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ethan Lindsey <elindsey () gmail com>
Date: October 28, 2006 11:13:53 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: more on Kroc money

Dave --
I am not going to argue over the terrestrial/satellite radio debate --
or choose sides on the NPR lawsuit over beefed-up FM modulators.

But using the Joan Kroc money as a catch-all complaint for the
problems with public radio is now one of the most misused and tired
arguments around.

NPR has, to a commendable degree, reinvested in its newsrooms
(http://www.nhpr.org/files/NPR%20Press%20Release.pdf) and yet smartly,
took the bulk of the money and invested in a way that will pay off for
listeners for generations, including those that will be listening to
NPR over satellite and the Internet.

To equate Joan Kroc's money with local pledge drives is to show a
misunderstanding of how public radio works. Those pledge drives help
YOUR OWN local public radio station buy NPR, PRI, and APM programming
like Morning Edition; if you live in San Diego you may have a
complaint, because Kroc donated a bunch to KPBS in San Diego as well.

But for all other local stations, the bulk of what the Joan Kroc money
did was, in fact, beef up the news staff and value of NPR programming.

ethan lindsey
Independent Radio Producer/berlin
http://www.ethanlindsey.com


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From: Matt Murray <mattm () optonline net>
Date: October 27, 2006 11:05:29 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Public radio seeks recall of FM devices used in cars

I am almost spitting tacks after reading this.

For decades J.C. Whitney, Radio Shack and other "electronic" vendors
have sold FM modulators. Now all of a sudden when satellite radio is
starting to pull listeners away from terrestrial broadcasting, does
anyone, let alone National Public Radio, actually care about it?!?

Terrestrial broadcasting is doomed to become the AM radio of this
generation. It only took them ten years to organize their beg-a-thons
to run at the same time, so that listeners could not switch from one
public radio station to another to avoid the pleading. If they had not
abused my address and other contact info after a contribution, I might
want to help them.

So the funding from Joan B. Kroc, is going to try and smite the FM
modulators and satellite radio, instead of expanding a news department
or two.

Where can I file a lawsuit saying that the NPR broadcasters are
interfering with my Sirius Xact Stream/Jockey radio?

Matt Murray
Lifetime Sirius subscriber (the $499.99 lifetime package:  please,
sir, give me more!)

----- Original Message -----
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal- 
te.radio26oct26,1,1438693,print.story

| Public radio seeks recall of FM devices used in cars
| By Frank D. Roylance
| sun reporter
|
| October 26, 2006
|
| Citing widespread interference on broadcast frequencies
| used by its member stations, National Public Radio has
| asked the Federal Communications Commission to order
| recalls of millions of FM modulators that drivers use to
| play satellite radios and iPods through their car stereos.



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e t h a n . d a n i e l . l i n d s e y
elindsey () gmail com
http://www.ethanlindsey.com


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