May 12, 2021

Double Zoom meetings, overlapping, the first with the Community Advisory for Blue Ridge Public Radio, the second for Y’s unfolding and initial play contest. I felt my attention eroding after I’d gotten the point of each. The radio station wants to expand its number of listeners, adding young people and non-whites if at all possible. Most of the suggestions of how to do that were purely performative: things that sound enlightened when you put them on a list but really make no actual difference at all; create talking heads programs for ever slimmer minorities to join the talking heads which are at this moment not listened to. Left the meeting early to watch Jeopardy.