It was a couple years later that the telecommunications act of 1996 killed radio and enabled shit like ClearChannel and Cumulus to own most all of broadcast radio and all the DJs that remain are beholden to their corporate overlords and shareholders.
Just like Nexstar and Sinclair got all the TV stations, they bought the local newsanchors.
People who you may have been watching/listening to for years, now a puppet of the shareholders.
Seemingly every opinion they give on anything must be something that won’t upset the shareholders.
And that’s bad. That means they bought your trust. It’s priceless. And you didn’t get a dime.
I remember and I also heard people bitching about Pearl Jam’s activism. No one else remembers the second part though.
Or who listens to corporate media.
It was a couple years later that the telecommunications act of 1996 killed radio and enabled shit like ClearChannel and Cumulus to own most all of broadcast radio and all the DJs that remain are beholden to their corporate overlords and shareholders.
Just like Nexstar and Sinclair got all the TV stations, they bought the local newsanchors.
People who you may have been watching/listening to for years, now a puppet of the shareholders.
Seemingly every opinion they give on anything must be something that won’t upset the shareholders.
And that’s bad. That means they bought your trust. It’s priceless. And you didn’t get a dime.
Yeah, one of many Clinton era giveaways to the (at the time) nascent oligarch class.
I couldn’t believe that shit. Was easy to figure out who the morons were.