[SBE] The future of Broadcasting.

[weathertop at charter.net]

Dear Future-of-Broadcasting types—
We have all found this topic of sufficient interest to swamp our moderator with several hundred emails in less than a week. Does anyone else feel slightly alarmed that there’s nothing coming out of our newsrooms about this? Can our news departments be so blind as to miss what’s going on here? We’ve heard about the hundreds of news people from network to small stations who have been laid off over the past couple of years but nothing about these proposed changes that will outright close many radio and TV stations. These are very people who are supposed to tell our public what’s going on in the world, the ones we work hard to support and keep on the air, and yet it seems that they are fiddling while Rome burns. Look at the stories on tonight’s five o’clock news—Tiger Wood’s porn star girlfriend tells all, Sandra Bullock’s wandering husband apologizes for behaving like Tiger Woods, spring floods in the Midwest, a new virus you can get from Facebook, and oh, that Health Care debate thing.  If the end of the broadcast era isn’t enough to get the attention of the best asset we have to bring attention to our cause, how can we begin to fight for our existence? 
Adrienne
---- Jeremy Morris <jdmickies at gmail.com> wrote: 

> This topic and posting is completely relevant.  Since most of you will be

> retiring sooner rather than later, I and my fellow 20-30-somethin' engineers

> ARE the future of broadcasting and of SBE.  Some of you need to realize that

> we're gonna be the ones to deal with what ever is left over, whether it's

> manning the last stick of freedom out in BFE Montana or having to reboot the

> servers full of government approved programming.  If some of you don't want

> to participate, that's fine.  Move over and let us handle it.  That goes for

> you on the Board, too.  I'm not threatening anybody, but we've got to assert

> ourselves in the politics of our industry or we'll be legislated out of

> existence.  Since I'm local to DC, I'm probably more attuned to the

> political side of the issue than most, but we all need to know and

> understand where this is headed and what positions we can take, if any, to

> stop it.

> 

> Thanks for your time. No votes please.

> 

> Jeremy

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