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His dismissal of the concept of live radio is particularly pitiful. I find his arguments against it ignorant and self-serving. “Live radio served audiences well in a bygone era,” he says, suggesting that one can now “time-shift anything you want,” claiming that tape and the Internet are viable ways of doing so.
Places I can listen to the radio:
I believe someday that technology will exist–full-quality digital audio and video that we can easily get right from our home computer of the future or quickly download to some digital thingy and pop into a Walkman. And I think that will indeed present an interesting scenario for live broadcasting. Malatia suggests that it’s the end of a “bygone era.” But when everything that has already happened is on tape and readily available, there will be no more need for “broadcasting”–except to present that which is live.
