1. There are a few people who read my LJ who are living in the States and they were my primary focus.
2. The same companies that are already well on their way to homogonising media through corporate consolidation in the States are keen to do as much of that as possible in the UK and the rest of the world - standing up to them doesn't need to be on your own doorstep to be meaningful. Not only that, but helping to keep an independent media outlet alive in the land of the media giant extends the possibility (at least) that some people in the US might take the opportunity to avail themselves of that broader horizon. As a station KEXP is not just a music station, they do factual and news programming as well, and none of it is at the mercy of a profit-focused share-holder / market bias. Sure they have their own bias, but I'll take it over 'greed is good' when it comes to getting information over to the masses...
3. The BBC is already subject to the slave of market forces and the lowest common denominator; I love popular and modern music, but there is only one show left on Radio 1 that I can listen to, and even then it's sometimes hard...
So, yeah, you live in Britain - doesn't mean that you're safe forever from the kind of oppressive media consolidation and dumbing down that is going on in the States at the moment, and now that the world is that much smaller why not help an organisation that is doing some good and not lining the pockets of a board of directors in the process (KEXP is a "not-for-profit" status company)? Moreover, not being able to tune-in to their programming 'on-the-dial' is not really a good reason, as they broadcast 24 hours a day, completely legally, around the world over the internet and they provide hours of music each week through free podcasts.
It's not as important as people starving or dying of AIDS, or the plight of prisoners of conscience around the world, or abused children everywhere, or any other group that is suffering and needs our support - not even close - but no one ever makes the "well I don't live there" argument about those problems any more...
(And yes I do give to those kinds of charities as well).
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Date: 2008-03-01 11:35 am (UTC)1. There are a few people who read my LJ who are living in the States and they were my primary focus.
2. The same companies that are already well on their way to homogonising media through corporate consolidation in the States are keen to do as much of that as possible in the UK and the rest of the world - standing up to them doesn't need to be on your own doorstep to be meaningful. Not only that, but helping to keep an independent media outlet alive in the land of the media giant extends the possibility (at least) that some people in the US might take the opportunity to avail themselves of that broader horizon. As a station KEXP is not just a music station, they do factual and news programming as well, and none of it is at the mercy of a profit-focused share-holder / market bias. Sure they have their own bias, but I'll take it over 'greed is good' when it comes to getting information over to the masses...
3. The BBC is already
subject tothe slave of market forces and the lowest common denominator; I love popular and modern music, but there is only one show left on Radio 1 that I can listen to, and even then it's sometimes hard...So, yeah, you live in Britain - doesn't mean that you're safe forever from the kind of oppressive media consolidation and dumbing down that is going on in the States at the moment, and now that the world is that much smaller why not help an organisation that is doing some good and not lining the pockets of a board of directors in the process (KEXP is a "not-for-profit" status company)? Moreover, not being able to tune-in to their programming 'on-the-dial' is not really a good reason, as they broadcast 24 hours a day, completely legally, around the world over the internet and they provide hours of music each week through free podcasts.
It's not as important as people starving or dying of AIDS, or the plight of prisoners of conscience around the world, or abused children everywhere, or any other group that is suffering and needs our support - not even close - but no one ever makes the "well I don't live there" argument about those problems any more...
(And yes I do give to those kinds of charities as well).