Writer's Block: On the Airwaves
Aug. 21st, 2009 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I can't even think about hosting my own radio show without automatically thinking of Pump up the Volume, a film about challenging the FCC's rules against free speech--about reclaiming the airwaves.
I doubt if I were to run a radio station of my own that I'd up really challenging anyone. Though much of the music I enjoy these days is not mainstream, I'm far from the in-crowd that's heading to small dives to listen to the latest sound (I have that whole kid factor to consider). Whatever I played though, any DJs would be speaking out against the insanity in the world. Left wing. Liberal. Suversive. Call it what you will, but I won't have any cowards on my staff staying safe in the conservative middle.
As for television ... Now there's a medium! Do you really want me to have that kind of power? Perhaps it's in the visual stories that I could better express myself. Radio doesn't hold the same hold on the masses the way the big glowing box does.
You know, I think it's best to end speculation right here. Frodo, don't hand me that ring! I'm starting to get a little fey in thinking about what a person with enough money, influence, and ovaries can do with access to creating television shows to change the minds of a nation--or a world.
I can't even think about hosting my own radio show without automatically thinking of Pump up the Volume, a film about challenging the FCC's rules against free speech--about reclaiming the airwaves.
I doubt if I were to run a radio station of my own that I'd up really challenging anyone. Though much of the music I enjoy these days is not mainstream, I'm far from the in-crowd that's heading to small dives to listen to the latest sound (I have that whole kid factor to consider). Whatever I played though, any DJs would be speaking out against the insanity in the world. Left wing. Liberal. Suversive. Call it what you will, but I won't have any cowards on my staff staying safe in the conservative middle.
As for television ... Now there's a medium! Do you really want me to have that kind of power? Perhaps it's in the visual stories that I could better express myself. Radio doesn't hold the same hold on the masses the way the big glowing box does.
You know, I think it's best to end speculation right here. Frodo, don't hand me that ring! I'm starting to get a little fey in thinking about what a person with enough money, influence, and ovaries can do with access to creating television shows to change the minds of a nation--or a world.
