{"id":72,"date":"2005-05-17T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-05-17T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T06:53:08","slug":"im-afraid-dave-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m afraid Dave is right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer&#8217;s post this morning, ruminating on the ecological niche(s) of podcasting (<a title=\"It worked!\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/05\/17#itWorked\">It worked!<\/a>) includes a characterization of Public Radio that is, I fear, pretty much right on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinking more about it I realized that the role of an owner of a public radio station is twofold. You listen and you pay. Occasionally, if you don&#8217;t mind waiting and getting totally nervous, you can call in and ask a question of an expert &#8212; someone who is probably just saying politically correct bullshit, but you never get to speak, what you think isn&#8217;t important, your job is to pay, and if you like, listen, while they lull you to sleep with their relaxing talk that&#8217;s only intelligent when compared to the other crap that&#8217;s on the radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer&#8217;s post this morning, ruminating on the ecological niche(s) of podcasting (It worked!) includes a characterization of Public Radio that is, I fear, pretty much right on: Thinking more about it I realized that the role of an owner of a public radio station is twofold. You listen and you pay. Occasionally, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}