Slightly Off Target

The local alternative media rag has discovered technology that provides access to a plethora of news and views from all over the world.

Yet another sad article in which old media discovers the internet?

Err, actually no.

It's an even sadder article in which old media (i.e. a commercial weekly posing as an "alternative" rag) discovers shortwave radio.

The author spends way too much time celebrating the fact that all sorts of international news is available via shortwave (I guess he's not an internet news junkie like some of us). Unfortunately, the article misses a good opportunity more fully to explore a potential growth area for shortwave: the broadcast of music (which was once the great promise of the internet, until over-regulation stifled it).

[Posted at 08:49 CST on 06/19/03] [Link]