“‘Without a doubt, file sharing has had a huge negative impact on music industry sales,” said Russ Crupnick, vice president of The NPD Group. “But our research shows that even if digital file sharing were to disappear tomorrow, the record labels and retailers would still need to overcome important underlying causes of recent market declines.’” In a nutshell… it’s shit music. Read it here.
Live Video from the Mount of Olives Jerusalem
“The effect of the media’s march to amalgamation on Americans’ freedom of voice is too worrisome to be left to three unelected commissioners. This far-reaching political decision should be made by Congress and the White House, after extensive hearings and fair coverage by too-shy broadcasters, no-local-news cable networks and conflicted newspapers.” Read it here. And Marvin Kitman’s take from Newsday.
A new Infinity/AOL deal has some radio folks up in the air over a requirement for DJs to Include Product Plugs Within Editorial Content. Read it here.
“I discovered that the van I had to drive could very easily be persuaded to produce very loud, frightening backfires as and when I wanted it to (I’m not telling you how, find out for yourselves) and as I’ve always been keen on photography, I tried an experiment.” See it here.










