A Modern Crisis Of Confidence And The Rise Of The Downwardly Mobile

“If you lose the confidence in the idea that effort and investment in education can change life chances, it’s a really serious issue,”

Andreas Schleicher

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Mind Games

“Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information that confirmed what you believed, while ignoring information that challenged your preconceived notions”

No shit Sherlock.

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I knew I was up

“I got up this morning…….I knew I was up because when I looked back at the bed… I wasn’t there!”-Chic Murray

The Cure For Loneliness

Being around people is not the cure for loneliness. It’s the cause

- Daniel Kitson

Scilly Comment

“That was George Harrison there. He was influenced by all things Indian wasn’t he? From a time when we looked to India for spiritual enlightenment rather than banking and support enquiries”

Radio Scilly DJ underlines his radio hyper local credentials with a questionable comment following the playing of a George Harrison track.

Local DAB No Thanks

“DAB is clearly a nonsense for genuinely local commercial radio services and the growing realisation amongst operators that this is a car crash waiting to happen has now bubbled to the surface and needs to be taken seriously,” …“It’s quite clear now that a growing number of existing local station operators do not want DAB as their future platform.”

“There are many of us in the industry who are clear about what needs to be done and I hope that the Government won’t take too long before it realises the errors that are being made and allows local radio operations to be left alone to continue to broadcast on the excellent, and far more appropriate, FM platform.”

“We don’t need, want or support this change. Things are tough enough as it is without the Government heaping more costs, uncertainty and damage on the local commercial radio sector. DAB for local commercial radio is inappropriate. It should be dumped.”

William Rogers CEO UKRD makes it clear that many think that digital radio is not a good fit for local radio.

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We Are Sorry For The Racism You Are About To Revisit

I was flipping radio channels this morning (a radio with a remote control is just encouraging my short attention span) when I caught a short announcement before an archived edition of the light comedy Mind Your Own Business which dated from 1987. The announcer warned:

“we head back to 1987 when, unfortunately, racial stereotyping was still pretty common”

 

I wonder what warnings, if any, will be placed in front of current media when it is reheated for the consumpion of future generations.