Alec Foege has written for "Rolling Stone," "The New York Times," "New York," "People," "Spin," "Playboy," "Details," and many other national publications. He currently is a contributing writer at Fortune Small Business. His previous books are "Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story" and "The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's Media Machine." He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.
"Clear Channel may not have ruined American radio on its own, but
it came pretty close. Alec Foege's "Right of the Dial" details the
whole, sad media saga." --Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media
Matters for America and author of "Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled
Over for Bush" "Read this book and you will want to scream. Alec
Foege tells a tale of rapacity and financial engineering that could
drive one to socialism. Not really, but close. In the hands of the
Mays family, Clear Channel Communications became America's radio
behemoth. With its 2,000 radio stations, it devised ways to
economize and centrally automate the music the stations played, the
news it presented. For a time, it was good for investors, and for
the Mays family. But as this book lucidly demonstrates, it was bad
for citizens and bad for American culture." --Ken Auletta"The story
of Clear Channel's binge and purge says so much about media in our
time. Alec Foege tells that complex story with characteristic
insight and balance. He never settles for the easy take, only for
the truth, which he illuminates with impressive clarity." --Anthony
DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, "Rolling Stone""The Clear Channel
corporation has been one of the most successful, most
controversial, and most reviled companies in the history of the
music business. With "Right of the Dial," Alec Foege takes a
thorough, clear-eyed look inside this mythic beast, and reveals a
uniquely American saga of commerce and culture gone mad."-- Alan
Light, former editor-in-chief, "Vibe" and "Spin" magazines
"Clear Channel may not have ruined American radio on its own, but
it came pretty close. Alec Foege's "Right of the Dial" details the
whole, sad media saga." --Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media
Matters for America and author of "Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled
Over for Bush": "Read this book and you will want to scream. Alec
Foege tells a tale of rapacity and financial engineering that could
drive one to socialism. Not really, but close. In the hands of the
Mays family, Clear Channel Communications became America's radio
behemoth. With its 2,000 radio stations, it devised ways to
economize and centrally automate the music the stations played, the
news it presented. For a time, it was good for investors, and for
the Mays family. But as this book lucidly demonstrates, it was bad
for citizens and bad for American culture." --Ken Auletta"The story
of Clear Channel's binge and purge says so much about media in our
time. Alec Foege tells that complex story with characteristic
insight and balance. He never settles for the easy take, only for
the truth, which he illuminates with impressive clarity." --Anthony
DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, "Rolling Stone" "The Clear Channel
corporation has been one of the most successful, most
controversial, and most reviled companies in the history of the
music business. With "Right of the Dial," Alec Foege takes a
thorough, clear-eyed look inside this mythic beast, and reveals a
uniquely American saga of commerce and culture gone mad."-- Alan
Light, former editor-in-chief, "Vibe" and "Spin" magazines
"The story of Clear Channel's binge and purge says so much about
media in our time. Alec Foege tells that complex story with
characteristic insight and balance. He never settles for the easy
take, only for the truth, which he illuminates with impressive
clarity." --Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, "Rolling
Stone"
"The Clear Channel corporation has been one of the most successful,
most controversial, and most reviled companies in the history of
the music business. With "Right of the Dial," Alec Foege takes a
thorough, clear-eyed look inside this mythic beast, and reveals a
uniquely American saga of commerce and culture gone mad."-- Alan
Light, former editor-in-chief, "Vibe" and "Spin" magazines
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