By Don Jacobson
Anybody who knows me can tell you I’m nothing if not an obsessive-compulsive radio freak. I love the radio and I love the rock ‘n’ roll, always have. I suffered mightily in my younger days when the suits took over the airwaves and shrunk the playlists to the point where you could inscribe them on the head of a pin. It hurt me so much, well, you’d have wept if you would have seen it. It was that bad. Now they’re going to do it me (and you) again: The suits are getting ready to do to Internet radio what they did to regular radio decades ago – kill it dead. If you like the wonderfully diverse playlists of the kind of Internet radio shows listed on our handy (and somewhat dandy) Beachwood 24/7 Alt Country Internet Radio Guide, you’ll keep reading and perhaps you can help me stop them.
Posted on June 27, 2007
Do you remember the scene in To Kill a Mockingbird where the angry mob is trying to lynch Jim at the jail only to be thwarted by the pie-eyed happiness and good cheer of Scout? Me too. That is the way I like my justice served – in a timely, dispassionate fashion with as little mob activity as possible. Emotionally remote jailers simply carrying out their appointed tasks without comment or prejudice. For, after all, aren’t we all criminals in one sense or another? Have we not committed crimes in our hearts if not our actions? And don’t we deserve to be treated like it’s not a big deal?