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...Kiss 108, then they probably don't have a clue about the Boston radio scene. Upton is mad that Kiss 108 doesn't play enough "black" music; Mehta cries that Jam'n isn't serving as the "sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners" that it would be, while WILD (which was supposedly a great "sounding board" in the 1960s) is too small...
Forgive me for questioning the assumption of your writers that radio should play "black music" to teach white people a lesson or two. And excuse me for pointing out that both of your writers seem to look at their home cities--suburban Baltimore for Mehta and somewhere in the New York area for Upton--as the standard-bearers of racial integration and harmony, while claiming that Boston is a backward, segregated, parochial city...
What they have to realize is that commercial radio stations will never play more than 40 songs because they know that suburban dupes and office managers will keep their stereos and walkmen tuned in for at least a few minutes at a time--in other words, there's a market for the stuff. And those 40 songs will tend to be from a narrow range of tastes--the rule in commercial radio is "specialize to capitalize." If you want to hear a broader range of music, you have to look elsewhere. This is as true of classical music, for example...
...Thomas Payzant has since vowed to crack down on the truant teachers. While their "behavior is unacceptable," he maintains, "parents are responsible for students many more hours than teachers and have got to do some monitoring of homework." But what happens when such home support is lacking? While their suburban peers return home to parents eager to boot up the computer to help with a research paper, many inner-city students don't have the same resources or have parents who are undereducated or too busy making ends meet to help with homework...
Orange County, the sprawling expanse of suburban, upper-middle-class communities south of Los Angeles, is the home of the California life-style. "Orange County is to the youth-apparel market what New York is to the fashion world," says Danny Kwok, co-president of Quiksilver. "We are the epicenter of the youth movement...