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...listened to WBUR's fund drive all last week and the week before, and by the end I was ready to rush wild-eyed into the streets, gibbering out the precepts of supply-side until they came with straitjackets to take me away. Governments that wish to flout basic human rights without risking their most-favored-nation trading status could strap dissidents into chairs and make them listen to this stuff...
Thus, the Boston lawyer and former political commentator for WCVB-TV and WBUR-FM differs with his opponents on some of the hottest issues in this year's campaign, ranging from the economy to education reform...
...listened to Los Angeles' excellent KROQ for several years. I was dismayed to find that while WHRB would come in over my phone, WFNX just wouldn't come in on my radio. I needed my Peter Gabriel, my Pearl Jam, my R.E.M.! Flipping aimlessly through station after station, from WBUR's BBC coverage to Kiss 108's irritating dance mixes, I eventually found what I was looking for--on WBOS, the station that the Unofficial Guide characterizes as "Fleetwood Mac and the Doobies...
Boston University's WBUR lost its claim to serious classical music broadcasting ever since it introduced idle chatter between selections and its practice of playing single movements of larger pieces. The over-commercialized WCRB uses jingled commercials inconsistent with its format and is unimaginative in its programming. WGBH is simply limited...
...irate letters. Lameduck Mayor Kevin White was lambasted when he declared that he saw nothing wrong with providing "preferential treatment" to powerful political figures who help Boston. Said White: "I do favors if I think it's in the best interests of the city." Said Tony Cennamo, a WBUR-FM radio station announcer: "When I read about the ticket-fixing, I got damned crazy, almost violent. I wanted to go to Mayor White and shake him." To help douse the fury, one of the errant McGees, Colleen, 24, paid the full amount of the fines. But the space race...