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      <title>Comments On: :Vocalo and its discontents
    
      by Whet Moser</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[Joel Brussell]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think the dilemma for vocalo is being all inclusive and then having to deal with the realities of quality control for being that. The irony of course is that the higher ups or elite of BEZ decided to create all inclusive radio. The onion layers of skillful branding and marketing can never be truly peeled back.
    To be fair and honest I post a great deal of (hopefully) comic satiric content on the vocalo site and get much airplay
    Though I&acirc;&#128;&#153;ve had comic pieces here and there on WBEZ, anything with any real edge, rightly or wrongly so, is gunned down for BEZ and considered inappropriate for their  Lexus leather 12 area climate control, that&acirc;&#128;&#153;s just terrible about starvation&acirc;&#128;&#157; listeners. So Vocalo gives me a creative outlet as opposed to more fodder for my hard drive.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[so-called "Austin Mayor"]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think that the most significant issue regarding :Vocalo is the matter of its clandestine funding.  
    
    Listeners to 91.5FM give money to Chicago Public Radio with the express understanding that their pledge dollars will go to paying for the programming they have "come to expect" from WBEZ.  
    
    The individual donors and corporate sponsors give money to support the national programming from NPR and PRI and to fund the local programs they hear on BEZ.  They don't pledge to fund Torey Malatia's anti-radio experiment/ego trip.
    
    If only there were a word for a not-for-profit organization taking tax-deductible donations and "re-purposing" them in a manner contrary to the organization's solicitation -- i.e. pledges from WBEZ listeners during WBEZ pledge drives that interrupt WBEZ programming -- and counter to the express intentions of the donors...
    
    Is "Vocalo" Latin for "fraud"?
    
    -- SCAM
    so-called "Austin Mayor"
    http://austinmayor.blogspot.com
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kiki]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Vocalo, you look like you have something to say! Dooooo yooouuu?
        
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          Posted by Kiki]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[R.Barnes]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Interesting thoughts Whet.
    
    "If you can't or are unwilling to listen to :Vocalo, imagine a newspaper turned upside down, where the comments and letters to the editor are on the front page."
    
    These seems disanalogous to me.  Most of Vocalo's content is nowhere near the level of printed newspaper comments and letters to the editor.  
    
    Vocalo isn't the "back page" of public radio.  Most of what Vocalo airs wouldn't cut it on any radio station.  It's awful.  Both in content and production.  And I really think that is the problem most people have with it.
      
    WBEZ already had (and still has) some user-submitted content.  Essays, some pieces, etc.  Vocalo isn't really an extension of that.
    
    "Uncharitably, imagine the inmates running the asylum."
    
    I'm not sure that helps either.  It paints "mainstream" public radio as jailers and Vocalo staff and users as people who were being held down by mainstream public radio.  That doesn't seem to fit.  It was a mainstream public radio that very consciously launched Vocalo, and it's a mainstream public radio station that is paying a lot of money to keep it afloat.  
    
    How about this analogy (assuming you are a Simpsons fan): Vocalo is the Poochie of public radio?
        
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