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The Latest Punkers on the Block
Oct. 6th, 2012 12:12 pmOn recommendation of the guys at Radiolab, I started listening to and thoroughly enjoying 99% Invisible. Short, well-produced, thought provoking; just darned good podcasting. There was the little turd at the end of each episode, though, a commercial plug for some shit or another that simply doesn't belong on public radio, even good public radio.
So when producer Roman Mars turned to Kickstarter to fund his third season, and got not just the target but over a hundred grand more than that, making it "the most funded journalism project in Kickstarter’s history," things were looking up ad-wise. With this much funding, goodbye ads!
Or so dreamers like me would think.
Alas, when Episode 61: A Series of Tubes went out to the public, the obligatory commercial dunning from the obligatory shitty businesses that dun tainted the tail end of an otherwise wonderful and informative piece of audio journalism, demonstrating once again that advertising is not about the money. It is obviously about something else.
( Here's the letter to Mr. Mars. )
As you can read above, I'm done suggesting "solutions," especially to Mr. Mars. He had the solution. He squandered the opportunity it presented. Public radio has become commercial, and no amount of public contributions is going to apparently change that. The lesson, therefore, is don't give money to public radio ever again.
So when producer Roman Mars turned to Kickstarter to fund his third season, and got not just the target but over a hundred grand more than that, making it "the most funded journalism project in Kickstarter’s history," things were looking up ad-wise. With this much funding, goodbye ads!
Or so dreamers like me would think.
Alas, when Episode 61: A Series of Tubes went out to the public, the obligatory commercial dunning from the obligatory shitty businesses that dun tainted the tail end of an otherwise wonderful and informative piece of audio journalism, demonstrating once again that advertising is not about the money. It is obviously about something else.
( Here's the letter to Mr. Mars. )As you can read above, I'm done suggesting "solutions," especially to Mr. Mars. He had the solution. He squandered the opportunity it presented. Public radio has become commercial, and no amount of public contributions is going to apparently change that. The lesson, therefore, is don't give money to public radio ever again.
