The model for radio in Britain is very different to that in the US. I think we are massively fortunate to have radio stations that are not genre based, for example, because it allows music in this country to develop more organically and means people like the Scissor Sisters can find a home. Radio 1 and 2 certainly are not perfect but they can be pretty good at times. I suppose I would rather work on improving things over here rather than trying to sort out the US music industry which is in my opinion massively broken. I think things are already improving over here because of the internet (eg the rather hackneyed example of the Arctic Monkeys).
I know about massive media corporations (I did half my degree on them). My comment was probably a bit rude, I just think in Britain we are in a very different situation than in the US and whilst globalisation means we all get to eat from the same offal filled trough we have more ways to fight more effectively against the hyperglobalmegacorps here than in the US. For example, the BBC has a lot of faults but Murdoch wouldn't hate it so vehemently if it didn't give him serious cause for concern.
And god knows I want to cause the collapse of capitalism but whatcha gonna do?
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Date: 2008-03-01 12:19 pm (UTC)I know about massive media corporations (I did half my degree on them). My comment was probably a bit rude, I just think in Britain we are in a very different situation than in the US and whilst globalisation means we all get to eat from the same offal filled trough we have more ways to fight more effectively against the hyperglobalmegacorps here than in the US. For example, the BBC has a lot of faults but Murdoch wouldn't hate it so vehemently if it didn't give him serious cause for concern.
And god knows I want to cause the collapse of capitalism but whatcha gonna do?