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WDET-FM in Detroit stopped its Web audio stream today because of new limits on how Internet broadcasters can program music.
A live chat on eating disorders gets underway at 2 p.m. ET today at washingtonpost.com. Author Marya Hornbacher, whose book “Wasted” chronicles her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, participates in the chat. She is one of several young women profiled in “Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family,” a documentary airing tonight on many PBS stations.
“I was always attracted to this part of the world and wanted to make some contribution in trying to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer together,”says NPR Middle East correspondent Linda Gradstein in a Los Angeles Times profile. (Via Romenesko.)
The Prometheus Radio Project has posted an information sheet about translators in advance of next month’s filing window at the FCC.
A manager in ethical hot water can be compared to a frog in a soup pot, says Carter McNamara. If you put a frog in a pot of hot water, it will immediately jump out, McNamara writes in The Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers. But if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and very gradually increase the heat of the burner, you can boil the frog before it knows what’s up.
The point here is that most ethical problems are created not by management mischief but by poor decisions made by managers under stress.
Paste magazine covers triple-A and Americana music, with some emphasis given to noncommercial triple-A stations. Their site now features a profile of eclectic KEXP in Seattle.
The FCC has overturned a $7,000 fine levied against Portland’s KBOO for airing the sexually explicit song “Your Revolution” by rap artist Sarah Jones (FCC’s ruling in PDF).
The city council in Whitesburg, Ky., also declined to endorse an state funding application from the Appalshop community media center–but not because of any alleged anti-Americanism. (See below.)
Marketplace host David Brancaccio discusses his show’s raison d’etre with the Boston Globe. (Via Romenesko.)
PBS and MTV air programs tonight on the threat of war with Iraq, Frontline‘s “The War Behind Closed Doors” and an MTV news special that serves as a “more elementary but also intelligent primer” for its young viewers. The New York Times reviewed both.
Fast Company named Susan Clampitt, g.m. of WAMU in Washington, D.C., one of its “Fast 50.”
NPR’s Steve Inskeep is a finalist for the 2003 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Shorenstein Center. (Via Romenesko.)
Public radio stations in New Hampshire and Vermont expect the FCC will soon decide on their application for a jointly owned classical music station.
Ellen Kushner, host of public radio’s Sound and Spirit, has helped launch the Interstitial Arts movement.
Maigstrates in Kentucky have refused to endorse a grant application from Whitesburg’s Appalshop because of an alleged unpatriotic remark by a DJ on WMMT-FM, reports the Associated Press. Appalshop operates WMMT, a community radio station.