As someone who lost a position in radio to automation about 35 years ago, trying to play nice with tech designed to replace you is stupid. I was stupid. My colleagues were stupid.
You have a chance to not tell this story in 35 years. Take it.
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dangrsmind
in reply to Yakyu Night Owl • • •as I told a room full of of half drunk radio executives at the Gavin convention in San Francisco back in 2001, the biggest threat to their businesses was not piracy (Napster, Internet tech) but cultural irrelevance.
I was right.
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Yakyu Night Owl
in reply to dangrsmind • • •@dangrsmind Meanwhile, any one of the many thousands of people who picked up the phone could tell you about their value to the community.
All of us, even someone small potatoes like myself, talked our share of P1s out of suicide on the request line. I can recall two. As a part-timer.
Corporate media didn't care, and played in everyone's faces after 1996.
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Lorraine Lee
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