Tag: Perry Michael Simon

Talk radio was different during Vietnam, and didn’t exist during previous wars.

If you win, you get on the political gravy train; once you get into office, you’ll always be able to get some kind of related job once you’re out of office...

If you’re a radio host, what might those transferrable skills be? Let’s see…

Nobody can argue that things are bright and sunny for radio going forward, but there’s still a business in creating audio content, whatever the medium.

Video isn’t radio with pictures. Video is another medium. Radio and podcasting are separate media as well. You can’t get away with doing a half-assed job on any of them.

What you should be doing is imagining a world where radio just doesn’t exist and you can do anything else you want to do…and then do it.

Arguing that public radio and television are competing for the same audience assumes that there’s some crossover between the two. You’re doing different things.

Don’t do political radio rows, ever. Don’t do interviews to make friends and don’t socialize with the people you cover.

I’m proud that I got to work on some unusual radio projects and the early stages of podcasting, but today we’re at the same things-gotta-change position as we were back then, only worse.

There’s plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about radio’s future. Did you know that?