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June 18, 2021
Five ThingsIt's another one of those weeks when I wrote most of a column, decided that it was not good, trashed it, and now have no real idea what to write. It's the equivalent of the Sixers getting to the middle of the third quarter just fine, then falling off a cliff, and for ...
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June 11, 2021
Social InsecurityThe experiment did not last long. The idea was to do what a lot of people proclaim they're doing but don't: lay off social media for a week or two. It's been a stressful time, and Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, while valuable in some ways, do not always, as Marie Kondo ...
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June 4, 2021
Feeling Free To FailAs with a lot of things in life, radio people live with an undercurrent of fear. We fear losing our jobs. We fear making that one mistake on the air or on social media that can end a career. We fear getting hotlined. We fear being blamed for trainwreck segues ("it was the ...
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May 28, 2021
Sing Like Nobody’s ListeningAs I write these words, it's Friday morning, and I'm thinking about how nobody will be reading this. That's not precisely true -- you, for one, happen to be an exception -- but it's the precipice of a holiday weekend in the U.S. and most people, even radio and podcasting ...
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May 21, 2021
You Be YouWhat will you be doing for a living ten years from now? Twenty? What's your goal? Everybody asks themselves that once in a while, but for radio talent, it's an especially fraught question. Depending on who's talking, you'll hear that radio won't exist twenty years from ...
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May 14, 2021
Into The Great Wide OpenIf you do one job for a couple of decades, you're going to find certain things repeating themselves. Write a column that long and you end up revisiting some themes, and by "revisiting" I mean "repeating yourself ad nauseam," which leads me to my time-honored "blank slate" ...
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May 14, 2021
Into The Great Wide OpenIf you do one job for a couple of decades, you're going to find certain things repeating themselves. Write a column that long and you end up revisiting some themes, and by "revisiting" I mean "repeating yourself ad nauseam," which leads me to my time-honored "blank slate" ...
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May 7, 2021
Why Me?"What do I need YOU for?" I heard The New York Times tech columnist and podcast host Kara Swisher ask that about Clubhouse on The Daily Beast's "The New Abnormal" podcast. She could have asked that to anyone about anything, but it's a question I've myself asked in many ...
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April 30, 2021
Outside Outside-The-BoxWhat if we've been looking at this all wrong? What if we've been thinking inside the box all along, even when we thought we were being cutting edge and radical? That was my reaction when Dan Le Batard and John Skipper announced that the destination for Le Batard's show ...
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April 23, 2021
Being ThereI was encouraged by a lot of the talk at the All Access Audio Summit 2021, which reflected more recognition that things in the radio industry need to change. At least, the right questions are being asked and the issues are being raised. Whether the answers are either ...