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The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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fade
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What will make you feel even worse is that only the story is by Rowling. It's written by some other dude.
Atouk zugzug Lana.
It's the book version of the new play, following the children, 19 years later - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. @fade's right, though - while the story (and possibly play script?) is Rowling's, the book was ghostwritten.
fade
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It's not even ghostwritten. His name is right there with top billing on the cover.
Youtube or it didn't happen.
Dave
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It's coming. I have to get the recording back from the person who did it. Hopefully she'll get to it soon, but she's notoriously squirrely.Youtube or it didn't happen.
GasBandit
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Sooo now our owner is all paranoid about our public file, since a radio station up in Michigan got fined $10k for having an incomplete public file, and the owner of the radio station says the missing parts were stolen - that only two people had come to review the public file and they were both competitors. He suspects one of them swiped some of the documents and then filed a complaint to the FCC, which led to the FCC discovering the incomplete file, and thus, the fine.
We're going to be going digital on our public file, I think.
We're going to be going digital on our public file, I think.
Cursed Child isn't actually being published as a book. The script of the play is being published as a book, which is why it's not written by J.K.
Yeah that...that is a confidence lessener in my hopes for this. BUT it is the writer of Skins so...no still cautious.
There's a new HP book coming out!
-J/K
-J/K
https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/broadcast/pif.html
And if you don't have it, they fine you, or shut you down if you are found to be transmitting improperly.
And if you don't have it, they fine you, or shut you down if you are found to be transmitting improperly.
Weird.
A cursory glance of those documents would suggest there is no real reason to keep them on-site except as straight-up busywork (since an alias to that website seems like it would be sufficient).
So thank you for answering the "what" portion of my question. I still wonder about the "why."
--Patrick
A cursory glance of those documents would suggest there is no real reason to keep them on-site except as straight-up busywork (since an alias to that website seems like it would be sufficient).
So thank you for answering the "what" portion of my question. I still wonder about the "why."
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Because when radio was first getting started, somebody decided that every radio station has to be demonstrably "operating in the public interest." So we have to devote a certain amount of time to community-oriented programs, service, etc, and document that in the file, and we also have to fully disclose all political advertising in the file.
It's a colossal pain in the ass, and a waste of time and resources, but the FCC bureaucrats tend to get huffy when you call attention to their officious malarkey.
I'm assuming this is why nearly every radio station that does Top 40 whatever does stuff like road reports and brief news snippets among other things? Really, this isn't any different than television stations being required to devote X amount of their programming time to educational or culture based programming, which virtually every station burns off on ether Saturday or Sunday morning... and I would feel like it shouldn't be required if everyone and their mother wasn't trying to defund PBS content just because it tends to lean left.
GasBandit
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Yep. Tune in to your favorite radio station around 5 or 6 in the morning on the weekends and hear all their wall-to-wall public affairs programming to satisfy the FCC!
It's ridiculous. We burn off 90% of our "obligation" at 6:30am sunday mornings, when nobody is listening. Pragmatically, it is a stupid, outdated requirement that is never even effectively implemented. But woe betide you if one of their bureaucrats comes by your office and your stupid public file isn't 100% in order. Then you'll get dozens of thousands of dollars in fines. If there's a company that definitely needs some fat trimmed, it's the FCC.
That's price for exclusive access to the public's airwaves, I guess. Though the FCC needs some serious new blood because of how it controls content.
GasBandit
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It is a price that serves nobody. It's tantamount to a tax that is collected in person, in cash, and then set on fire in front of you.
GasBandit
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It started a few years ago as a faint sound. I never thought about it much. Late nights the sound became more apparent. It was growing stronger. Yesterday I finally was able to record it. I haven't slept since yesterday night.
When I was little, and watching Laugh-In. I had a bigger crush on Ruth Buzzi than Goldie Hawn.
You'd think that, but you'd likely be wrong.If the 13 year old me knew what I know now, when all the other kids were listening to Thriller, I'd show up with Off the Wall.
Sister-in-law kept talking up Queen when she was a teen, but her circle wasn't having none of it. Then Wayne's World comes out and, as she puts it, "Oh, a couple of Canadians put it in a movie and now suddenly it's cool!" as she stands there with the smoke squiggle over her head.
--Patrick
Yes, really.
I'm not saying you don't have a case, I'm just saying that your 13yr-old friends would not recognize it as being great.
--Patrick
It doesn't matter what my friends think, it matters what the GIRLS think. [emoji41]
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GasBandit
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