The one thing I would agree with her on is the need for outlets to cover things in local communities. I live in a suburban area, and information I can find about local elections or events has become scarce over time (admittedly not helped by my abandonment of social media). A town of, say 20k people isn't going to support its own press unless it's the only news worth caring about in the region.
Stuff like local radio etc. could be absolutely fantastic for that and with modern technology broadcasting would not be difficult to setup. The problem is and I've researched this, there are so many insane regulations when it comes to radio signals in general you would get fucked so hard if you step on any toes.
Something I've dabbled in studying is stuff like radio signal transmission but when I saw the 15 year jail sentences in the UK just for interfering with a broadcast I noped the fuck out of that real fast. It's a damn shame really because if there was less regulation around radio stations especially what they can broadcast you could actually make radio interesting.
In terms of local radio stations I'm literally thinking you just broadcast on a frequency within a specific radius around town so they can pick it up on any receiver. Then if they want they can livestream it on the internet to pick up a wider audience but again, regulations on speech and copyright as well as radio frequencies are fucked.
I have a radio tuned to the local station since sometimes it plays traditional music for my elderly family. Other times, it is the most egregious propaganda you could possibly imagine, possibly more insidious than CNN/MSNBC since it's not overtly playing to a certain crowd. Every talk segment is either mindlessly trivial trash to distract from the reality of life, or else 100% on-message currentthing narrative about why electric vehicles are great, etc.
The day right after the Dublin riots, they had an advert asking for people to volunteer spare housing space for refugees, as well as an advert for pregnant women specifically(!) to get their mRNA boosties - both within the same ad break. It's practically a naked provocation.
The one thing I would agree with her on is the need for outlets to cover things in local communities. I live in a suburban area, and information I can find about local elections or events has become scarce over time (admittedly not helped by my abandonment of social media). A town of, say 20k people isn't going to support its own press unless it's the only news worth caring about in the region.
Stuff like local radio etc. could be absolutely fantastic for that and with modern technology broadcasting would not be difficult to setup. The problem is and I've researched this, there are so many insane regulations when it comes to radio signals in general you would get fucked so hard if you step on any toes.
Something I've dabbled in studying is stuff like radio signal transmission but when I saw the 15 year jail sentences in the UK just for interfering with a broadcast I noped the fuck out of that real fast. It's a damn shame really because if there was less regulation around radio stations especially what they can broadcast you could actually make radio interesting.
In terms of local radio stations I'm literally thinking you just broadcast on a frequency within a specific radius around town so they can pick it up on any receiver. Then if they want they can livestream it on the internet to pick up a wider audience but again, regulations on speech and copyright as well as radio frequencies are fucked.
I had to listen to more local radio in the car this week than usual.
It should die in a fire.
I have a radio tuned to the local station since sometimes it plays traditional music for my elderly family. Other times, it is the most egregious propaganda you could possibly imagine, possibly more insidious than CNN/MSNBC since it's not overtly playing to a certain crowd. Every talk segment is either mindlessly trivial trash to distract from the reality of life, or else 100% on-message currentthing narrative about why electric vehicles are great, etc.
The day right after the Dublin riots, they had an advert asking for people to volunteer spare housing space for refugees, as well as an advert for pregnant women specifically(!) to get their mRNA boosties - both within the same ad break. It's practically a naked provocation.