“‘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.

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The Messiahcam.

by johnford on June 17, 2003

Live Video from the Mount of Olives Jerusalem

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Monday night in Wilton Manors. 6/16/2003

by johnford on June 17, 2003

06-16-2003

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William Safire on Radio Deregulation.

by johnford on June 17, 2003

“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.

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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.

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Pavement Terror.

by johnford on June 17, 2003

“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.

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