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Liz wants to know the name of a song they play on 103.1 and has emailed the station to find the answer to her query. We join our players here...
Asa: ClearChannel will solve all of your probleems!
Liz: ClearChannel actually doesn't own the station
Liz: they just sell adverising for it
Asa: really?
Liz: yeah
Asa: thats nice to know
Asa: an urban myth!
Liz: I know
Asa: for the coporo-digital age
Asa: oooh, I like that term
Liz: you should blog about it on your blog
Asa: and then blog about my blog on your metablog?
Liz: ironically, I also hear that ClearChannel may be dropping 103.1
There's so much modernity wrapped up in that exchange that I can barely handle it. So I probably will post about it on the
metablog just to complete the cycle. Oh the hideous cycle.
But yeah, I remember being quite aghast when I "learned" Clear Channel owned "Indy" 103. I mean, how Orwellian do you want to get? Or should I say "Munroe-ian" since Jim Munroe actually wrote a whole book about the MegaComs taking their assimilation of counterculture (see:Punk Rock) a step further by actually starting counter-culture movements themselves, with an entire brand marketing campaign in the wings. Angry Young Spaceman. Even though it turns out ClearChannel DOESN'T own Indy 103.1 it's still worth a look.
On the more important and/or interesting point here, I do think corporo-digital age is a pretty good term, and while maybe a bit long it does sum up the two major factors of the times we live in. Love it or hate it (ie Right or Left) I don't think there's much denying that corporations enjoy the most power they have since before the New Deal, and they're a whole hell of a lot larger nowadays. I think this, and the way it filters into the corporate media (the so-called liberal media), the government, and even the schools, is something that some very good books will be written about one day. I'm sure some good books have already been written, but hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
It's a wild ride. Time to hop on your metablog and wonder if they'll be implanting tracking chips in babies within your lifetime.
Sci-fi reasons.
Asa: ClearChannel will solve all of your probleems!
Liz: ClearChannel actually doesn't own the station
Liz: they just sell adverising for it
Asa: really?
Liz: yeah
Asa: thats nice to know
Asa: an urban myth!
Liz: I know
Asa: for the coporo-digital age
Asa: oooh, I like that term
Liz: you should blog about it on your blog
Asa: and then blog about my blog on your metablog?
Liz: ironically, I also hear that ClearChannel may be dropping 103.1
There's so much modernity wrapped up in that exchange that I can barely handle it. So I probably will post about it on the
metablog just to complete the cycle. Oh the hideous cycle.
But yeah, I remember being quite aghast when I "learned" Clear Channel owned "Indy" 103. I mean, how Orwellian do you want to get? Or should I say "Munroe-ian" since Jim Munroe actually wrote a whole book about the MegaComs taking their assimilation of counterculture (see:Punk Rock) a step further by actually starting counter-culture movements themselves, with an entire brand marketing campaign in the wings. Angry Young Spaceman. Even though it turns out ClearChannel DOESN'T own Indy 103.1 it's still worth a look.
On the more important and/or interesting point here, I do think corporo-digital age is a pretty good term, and while maybe a bit long it does sum up the two major factors of the times we live in. Love it or hate it (ie Right or Left) I don't think there's much denying that corporations enjoy the most power they have since before the New Deal, and they're a whole hell of a lot larger nowadays. I think this, and the way it filters into the corporate media (the so-called liberal media), the government, and even the schools, is something that some very good books will be written about one day. I'm sure some good books have already been written, but hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
It's a wild ride. Time to hop on your metablog and wonder if they'll be implanting tracking chips in babies within your lifetime.
Sci-fi reasons.
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