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Monday, March 14, 2005

, Thug Radio
(AlterNet)
Emmis and Clear Channel are the corporate muscle beneath hip-hop's skin; their hip-hop stations are notably dubbed "urban radio," which Chuck D says is "a perfect term because it actually escapes the notion of black ownership." The term first originated when black stations wanted to bring in white advertising, says hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang. Now, he says, it's been donned by white stations "using black music and culture to get street cred and in turn to drive the rest of the music industry."

(Exploitation has become so much more sophisticated these days. Promoters used to just steal make money on the music. Now they can profit on personal disputes of the artists as well. Hey, we all have folks we don't like. Can you imagine someone making cash over the fact that you don't like someone? The phunny thing I found in this story is that there is an organized coalition of protesters who held a rally in frigid Union Square Park last Friday [and] are part of a burgeoning opposition to corporate control of hip-hop radio. People will stand outside in the cold and protest over hip-hop radio; but their schools are falling apart, and their jobs opportunities are being shipped overseas: no protest. Now that is getting your priorities in order. )

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, Yes, Virginia, Democratic women are better in bed
(Capitol Hill Blue)
Google "Democrats make better lovers" and you get 296 299 citations. Try the same with "Republicans make better lovers" and you get just three four.

(Since appealing to social and economic self-interest doesn't seem to be working for the Dems, why not try the sex angle? That always works. (b/w grabbe))

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4/3/2005; 3:42:23 AM - Lawrence Green


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