The Cotton Boll Conspiracy has a characteristically astute item up on the "public-private partnership" concept so beloved by economic conservatives. The case in point is the upstate SC Innoventure Conference and its owner/organizer, Swamp Fox Community.
Basically, it's a private venture that sucks in a lot of public and private money. What it accomplishes is subject to question. Cotton Boll cites how The Newhouse-owned Greenville News shills for it, but forgot another way the Innoventure/Swamp Fox conjunction has its hooks into the public trough: every week South Carolina ETV Radio wastes ten minutes or so carved out of NPR's Morning Edition for a showlet called South Carolina Business Review, whose host, retired financial planner Mike Switzer, asks Swamp Fox's founder, John Warner, about whatever Warner wants to talk about:
Which seems to be consonant with Governor Haley's new, across-the-board, ETV board. As I've noted before, however, SCETV doesn't follow the Swamp Fox dictum of getting out of the way and letting smart people do their jobs. Governor Haley doesn't even appoint smart people to the ETV Board (Hi, Joey!).
ETV Radio's latest brainwave is to cannibalize its long running series, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. In a way it's understandable, as McPartland is 93, but it seems like a disservice to her 32 years' work to run some PSAs promoting "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz," while other times it has morphed into just "Piano Jazz," with some guest host.
Now on Sunday nights, they are running "The Best of Piano Jazz," made up of really old shows. And they've conjured up a Piano Jazz Podcast Brief series, too, via the radio's website.
Digging into the vaults is not always a bad thing, of course: ETV Radio has dusted off a brilliant series it produced in the 1970s called The American Popular Song, on Sunday nights. But that just underscores how South Carolina has beggared its public TV and radio services for decades while its executives continue to peddle how wonderful it all was in 1979. It's as if NBC were still peddling having Toscanini conducting its orchestra, even though he died in 1957.
NC public broadcasting is a state agency, too. Compare its programming to ETV.
But the broader point Cotton Boll makes is how economic development is, all too often, about the well-heeled and well-connected having conferences with each other to agree how clever they all are, and then not much happens except that everyone makes some money. EYV is just a streetcorner tout trying to get into The Sho
Basically, it's a private venture that sucks in a lot of public and private money. What it accomplishes is subject to question. Cotton Boll cites how The Newhouse-owned Greenville News shills for it, but forgot another way the Innoventure/Swamp Fox conjunction has its hooks into the public trough: every week South Carolina ETV Radio wastes ten minutes or so carved out of NPR's Morning Edition for a showlet called South Carolina Business Review, whose host, retired financial planner Mike Switzer, asks Swamp Fox's founder, John Warner, about whatever Warner wants to talk about:
The week of 05/16/2011
Monday, May 16, 2011Basically, after killing off their minuscule local news efforts, they've subbed out business coverage to a private enterprise with its own agenda.
The pulse of the SC business community is being monitored through news, blog comments, and events at www.swampfox.ws, a weekly feature on the SC Business Review. Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, founder and publisher of www.swampfox.ws and CEO of Innoventure SouthEast (www.innoventuresoutheast.com) based in Greenville.
Which seems to be consonant with Governor Haley's new, across-the-board, ETV board. As I've noted before, however, SCETV doesn't follow the Swamp Fox dictum of getting out of the way and letting smart people do their jobs. Governor Haley doesn't even appoint smart people to the ETV Board (Hi, Joey!).
ETV Radio's latest brainwave is to cannibalize its long running series, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. In a way it's understandable, as McPartland is 93, but it seems like a disservice to her 32 years' work to run some PSAs promoting "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz," while other times it has morphed into just "Piano Jazz," with some guest host.
Now on Sunday nights, they are running "The Best of Piano Jazz," made up of really old shows. And they've conjured up a Piano Jazz Podcast Brief series, too, via the radio's website.
Digging into the vaults is not always a bad thing, of course: ETV Radio has dusted off a brilliant series it produced in the 1970s called The American Popular Song, on Sunday nights. But that just underscores how South Carolina has beggared its public TV and radio services for decades while its executives continue to peddle how wonderful it all was in 1979. It's as if NBC were still peddling having Toscanini conducting its orchestra, even though he died in 1957.
NC public broadcasting is a state agency, too. Compare its programming to ETV.
But the broader point Cotton Boll makes is how economic development is, all too often, about the well-heeled and well-connected having conferences with each other to agree how clever they all are, and then not much happens except that everyone makes some money. EYV is just a streetcorner tout trying to get into The Sho
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