Of interest chiefly to Shampoo-Banana refugees
No matter where you go, there they are: WILLblog: WILL interview archives forever
When I started this blog I vowed to focus on great stuff in the public broadcasting online world...and every once in a while throw in something embarassing. Today's feature is both: great content, but simply awful presentation. I mean it's just bad web design, more embarassing still because I set it up, long ago when I knew even less. Keeping myself humble, as if that were a challenge...Focus 580 online audio archives stretch back to 2000.
[. . .] Local public radio and TV stations like WILL have been covering issues and people in local communities with the purpose promoting citizenship, community, and the entire set of good things we associate with civilization. If you put the best things we ever produced together in one pile, you could find some pretty great stuff. If you could effectively search and hyperlink it, you might even gain things like insight and historical understanding. If you could compile all the work from all the public TV and radio stations, put it in one online space, and make it findable down to the last jpeg, you'd have a mighty powerful tool for thought, as Howard Rheingold might put it. Can we help ourselves become better balanced in our perspective as a species, possibly more intelligent and humane? What could we do with these tools? We'd dearly like to find out.
But also, as that last bit points out, of interest to others.
Currently listening to an archived episode of Media Matters, with your host Bob McChesney, "a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Namely, the one from May 16, 2004 with guest Janeane Garofalo, co-host of The Majority Report.
Coming Thursday on Majority Report: Noam Chomsky.
Still haven't seen a decent critique of either Air America or Chomsky, seeing as most of them are written by people who have never listened to Air America or read any Chomsky, but, y'know, they've heard Bad Things. . .