Tag: Perry Michael Simon

All of this could be moot by the end of the decade, of course. But for now, there are glimmers of hope, tiny, minuscule, almost imperceptible glimmers.

College radio is, in many markets, dead...College radio could be – should be – an incubator for journalists even more than for radio personalities.

Maybe it’s time to trash the rules. All of them. Okay, maybe not “don’t do anything to jeopardize the license,” but the rest.

The problems facing the media are more about humans than they are about technology.

Pinpointing when the audience’s preferences change is an inexact science. That’s far less important than knowing that tastes have changed.

The common element of success for all media since Gutenberg is providing what the public wants. It’s about the content, not the medium.

Coverage of the election is, as we’ve discussed, still very horse-race-centric, and there’s been, of course, coverage of the various Trump court cases, but where is the coverage of exactly what the candidates plan to do if elected?

Maybe we’ve already reached the point where news doesn’t move the needle, when people have already made up their minds about everything and don’t care for anything beyond “I know what I know.”

It’s an election year and people do care about what’s going on, but not everyone is like the tiny percentage on social media sounding off on everything.

Put your resources into the good, entertaining, informative stuff. Get your broom and sweep out the rest.