(See continued carping below...) ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:32 pm Subject: Re: [Swprograms] 60% of BBC WS audience still listens on shortwave To: Shortwave programming discussion <[email protected]>
> Said powers that be in Bush House would claim that this shows the > brilliance of their strategy. They'd say that here in the good > ol' US > of A the odds of that capricious shutdown happening by governmental > fiat are nil. Well, of course they would.... and of course they would. To which I would reply, we live in an often dangerous and capricious world. > The BBC gambled back in 2001 that those listeners who were motivated > enough to seek them out via alternative technology could effectively > do so. Those listeners who weren't so motivated probably weren't > worth counting, anyway...at least in *their* eyes. A convenient and self serving syllogism, is all. Puts me in mind of the thinking of a former girlfriend... "Well if you're not willing to swim naked across the Atlantic to visit me, then you just must not love me enough." I didn't and I didn't. (Yes, pure fiction... but it illustrates the point.) And so it goes.... John Figliozzi _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
