Hegemony, a practical example
Stay Free! calls out Clear Channel's attempt to co-opt subversion. via
BoingBoing
It's official: even Clear Channel is sick of Clear Channel. The company has set up a fake pirate radio station in Akron, Ohio, which it's using to hurl insults at other Clear Channel stations. For about a week, Radio Free Ohio has feigned overthrowing Ohio's media monopoly by bleeding its broadcasts into WNIR and other Clear Channel stations.
Apparently they're trying to make room on the airwaves for liberal talk radio. They didn't cover their tracks very well, though. The website's very obviously hosted on Clear Channel servers.
Stay Free! thinks of it as good news ("Clear Channel is so desperate to defend its turf that it'll even try joining the chorus of critics.")--or is that sarcasm?--but the people on radiofreeohio's
message board are fairly pissed. My favorite comment:
"radio - music + poop = clear channel"
In the end all Clear Channel wants is to make money by leveraging dishonesty against the trusting nature of radio listeners. Fake-localized newscasts, pre-recorded DJ's, people-less studios, and all of today's hottest hits after these messages. Is that so wrong? They own it all now anyway, so who cares? Move on to XM or Sirius if it bothers you that much.
I miss radio.
