the disadvantage of too much press freedom ?
problems@gmail
And the way that govenment criticism is apparently ignored,
shows how adaptable humans are.
My day-time radio is difficult to tune, so I've left it on
'Classic FM'. So I don't know what policies other stations are
promoting. But 'Classic FM' is inappropriately IMO pushing
the resistance to monetary discipline, but subtley criticising
any interest rate increases. They have comments by
half-baked-economists ..etc. implying that interest rates are
a curse like bird-flu, rather than a necessary control
mechanism - admittedly applied somewhat too late.
Perhaps because the press has it's income from advertising,
they feel they must boost consumerism. Or is it that they
too don't understand the concept of unsustainablility ?
Probably not, since they took a long time to 'pull the
advert' which tells about the "killowatts per hour".
The mark of a real 3rd world society; when a big
public broadcaster hasn't got editing person/s that know
the difference between force, power and energy ?
Be happy don't worry -- JZ will fix it ?
Peter H.M. Brooks
>
> The amount of press freedom in new-SA is truly amazing.
>
in foreign newspapers, never appears here at all!
Are you keen on a nice stalinist/apartheid style censorship where
nothing vaguely different from the party line gets through?
I've been impressed, actually, by some improvements, recently, the
M&G, long an example of a responsible proponent of press freedom, has
had some interesting debates - most recently on what a 'black person'
means [given that racial classification is now illegal under the
constitution]. You might enjoy the article:
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/catherineparker/2008/06/27/“african-american”-–-meaning-what-exactly
Bob Dubery
Classic FM is not a big public broadcaster. It's a privately owned
station.
IMO they have great traffic reports, and during the week their
classical music isn't bad. During the weekend they tend to reclassify
"classic" as "anything that isn't rap or metal" and you get all sorts
of lowest common denominator "easy listening" rubbish.
Terms like "classic" and "jazz" are hard to define with certainty, but
broadcasters could do better. Somebody got fired at SABC last year for
playing "weird music" on a late night jazz show. I believe the "weird
music" was Sonny Rollins.
Moira de Swardt
> On Aug 15, 11:25 am, problems@gmail wrote:
> > My day-time radio is difficult to tune, so I've left it on
> > 'Classic FM'. So I don't know what policies other stations are
> > promoting. But 'Classic FM' is inappropriately IMO pushing
> > the resistance to monetary discipline, but subtley criticising
> > any interest rate increases. They have comments by
> > half-baked-economists ..etc. implying that interest rates are
> > a curse like bird-flu, rather than a necessary control
> > mechanism - admittedly applied somewhat too late.
I must have missed the comments by the "half baked economists" as I
seldom listen to this section unless I'm in my car in the early
evening - a fairly rare happening. Generally the hour of business
news from 18h00 to 19h00 is highly regarded by people with an interest
in that line. I know that Classic FM makes use of some of the most
experienced and interesting economists and financial analysts as
regular commentators and panelists. I've listened to some of them
with great interest. The further hour from 19h00 to 20h00 on
specialist topics is apparently also valued.
> Classic FM is not a big public broadcaster. It's a privately owned
> station.
I switched my radio to Classic FM at 06h00 on 1 September 1997 and
only moved it for Rodney Trudgeon's afternoon show on Radio 2000 until
Trudgeon moved to Classic FM.
> IMO they have great traffic reports, and during the week their
> classical music isn't bad. During the weekend they tend to reclassify
> "classic" as "anything that isn't rap or metal" and you get all sorts
> of lowest common denominator "easy listening" rubbish.
I agree about the stretching of what is and isn't "classical".
However it doesn't usually bother me. At home I either listen to CDs
or have the TV going in the background. The TV is going at the
moment.