Debbie Hennessey: Blog

Even my closest friends are always surprised to find out how the music biz works…excuse me, doesn’t work. Here’s something that has been going on since the first radio station played the first recorded song and it’s not cool. For over 80 years corporate radio has not paid one cent to artists when they play their song over the air - the same songs that attract millions of listeners and millions of advertising dollars to their stations. This is the only business that gets away with this. Can you think of any other business that doesn’t have to pay its suppliers for their product? Can you imagine grocery stores not paying farmers for their fruits and veggies or your favorite Target expecting to get all their various products at no cost?
Bill HR848 The Performance rights act was introduced in Congress in 2007 and just this week past the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill would finally close this loophole in the copyright law and ensure that AM and FM radio [...]

Giving me a blog is probably a bad idea ;-)
Well, well, well... my web hosting service has decided to give me a blog, something that one of us will probably come to regret.  ;-)  
I've actually wanted to do one of these for a while but it's usually been when I'm mad about some stupid thing in the world...so quite often lately...but I realized that that would just be adding to all the hype and negativity and I really hate hype! I don't want to be one more idiot going off about whatever.
So here's some rules..."more like guidelines, really"...to understanding my blog:
1. Sarcasm is my friend. It's bad I know but it is one of my favorite means of communication. However, I will try to keep it to a minimum...really.
2. I will try never to write an entry when I'm really ticked about something. That should help with rule one.
3. I'll try to keep it reasonably short...yeah, right!
4. I will try to entertain and educate. While I will write about various things, I think I will try and focus [...]