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She is so hurt and outraged. Her whole life has been turned upside down because of this. Law school is hard enough, but local and regional newspapers and radio stations have demoralized her.

Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners and viewers. There are some issues that have to be addressed like copyright protection, which is critical for broadcasters and some legal issues. But ultimately broadcasters will be huge players in the Internet.

Most of us are only tuned in to distant stations where all kinds of things are happening to other people. We listen through the static to their heartbreaks as if we were in some well-protected receiving chamber.

Most people are so sure that strip malls and big-box retail are bad, but what we find ugly today, we may not in the future. Exactly the same criticism was made about fast food joints and service stations 50 years ago. Now, if you have a service station that's over 50 years old, or you have an intact McDonald's, it's so interesting, it's novel, it's quaint. You might not call it beautiful, but you're likely not to call it ugly anymore.

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts,

Some of the stations got nervous, so we removed the ad voluntarily to spare them from the decision of what to do about the ad.

There are reasons why those stations are as big as they are. KDKA is a very broad radio station because a lot of people listen for news and information. A 20-year-old needs traffic and weather and news just like a 60-year-old. That's the common bond for KDKA.

There are probably individual gas stations out there that sell more street gas in a year than all of the racing fuel that Sunoco makes in a year, ... The reality is that the amount of race fuel most teams out there are using is very, very minimal.

The radio stations, television stations and the newspapers were calling. But I haven't been home. My wife, Jill, has been taking all the heat.