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Chris Bellomy wrote:

> In dfw.general Tom Hendricks <112374.474@compuserve.com> wrote:
> :
> :
> : Chris Bellomy wrote:
> :
> :> ARNOLDEVNS <arnoldevns@aol.com> wrote:
> :> :> "Boycott Dallas Radio Until they play local music. Why should local
> :> :>musicians support local radio if they don't support us?  Please add your
> :> :>thoughts and keep this thread going."
> :> :
> :> : Why should Dallas Radio stations play local musicians?  Are any of them any
> :> : good?
> :>
> :> Yes.  We are very lucky to live in a region where local music
> :> is thriving.  We also are cursed to live in a region dominated
> :> by corporate radio.
> :>
> :> Your questions speak of some pretty amazing ignorance.
> :
> : Yes but you make it sound like it is "1984" and they are your
> : overlords forcing you to do their bidding.
>
> No, I think you're reading your own interpretation into my
> words there.  Seeing as I *host* a radio show that is an
> alternative to the corporate hegemony, I obviously understand
> that we need not bend and submit to the corporate will.
>
> What I meant by our being cursed is that our alternatives to
> corporate radio are few; thus, corporate radio itself in this
> market takes even fewer creative chances than it takes in
> other markets.

That I can agree with.

Boycott radio advertisers until they play local music - keep this thread moving
Tom Hendricks (Art S Revolutionary, editor of the zine Musea)
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com



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>
> : We can peaceably protest  and I assure you radio police will not
> : come to your home in the middle of the night for questioning.
>
> "Who are the brain police?"
>
> cb