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Barrett's Revenge: The Slow Death of Indie 103.1
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Emotional weather report: Pageviews on the post about Dicky Barrett's firing just crossed 3,100 (in 2 days) and comments passed the 50 mark, and continue to pile up.
Bottom line: Sentiment is running deep and angry against Indie management for having canned Barrett over expressing his political views. Many listeners there commented that they have tuned out permanently.
Here's the 49th comment - from a woman who says she started the conversation that ended the Mighty Morning Show:
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michlyman posts: by michlyman on Mar 28, 2006 - 03:45 PM
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I was the "straw that broke the camel's back". Dicky got fired just after I made the comment that the South Dakota law is unconstitutional (see Roe v. Wade, still the law of the land). I said that the Supreme Court is scary (stacked by Bush) and if they (the Supreme Court) agree with the wacko gov of SD then we are all screwed (no pun intended), not just in SD, but in all 50 states. Until then, it is currently legal to have an abortion (with a few exceptions, in all 50 states). I have been pleading with INDIE to return Dicky, but Dicky won't come back--would you? How sad. And, I had to explain to my daughters (10 & 12) who are avid Indie listeners how the First Amendment has disappeared too and why mommy isn't to blame for Dicky's departure. My daughters are now afraid to say what they think to anyone. They are too young to understand what it means to be forced to have an unwanted, accidental (inluding one by forced rape or incest) preganancy and not be able to do a damn thing about it. Add that to that the melting icebergs (everyday I am passed in my 2003 Prius by 100,000 SUVs), the war in IRAQ, and the national debt, etc., and what a wonderful United States of America and world to leave behind for my kids and yours. We need to take back our Country and the Constitution (before that happens there is no hope for a real "Indie" radio station. Damn straight, there's gonna be a revolution in 2008!!! Michelle I'll have to echo Michelle's take.
Indie - when first launched - was great radio because it featured real musicians playing good music that they liked. If you didn't like what was on, all you had to do was wait a song or two, and something cooler would come along.
You rarely heard the same song twice, and most hours of music were packed with surprises - B-sides, demo cuts, new stuff just pressed and older tunes you wish you'd never forgotten.
But for the past eight months, the station has come to be dominated by play-list ruts (She Wants Revenge is now officially the most annoying ear-worm since "It's a Small World After All).
It's plain that if the station isn't in the grip of some vast payola scheme involving the owners of that band's contract and Morrissey's then they've all fallen asleep at the dials and the hard drive is running the music programming.
Braying idiots like TK and Van Stone aren't helping matters any.
Judging from the outcry over Barrett's ouster and the degradation of Indie's programming I'd say there's a pretty hungry fan base there being starved into foraging elsewhere for good radio.
A clever program director could step in a few Khz down the dial, emulate the early Indie, maybe hire away Jonesy and pick up Barrett, and continue to prosper and enrich the discerning listeners whom Indie has abandoned.
Should we hold our collective breath?
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 07:05 PM
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