Note:  edited on Dec. 10, 2009 to flesh out these thoughts more).

Are amateur bloggers (clarification:  non-probloggers) close, or distant, cousins to crackpot pirate radio broadcasters?

I just watched a TV show that featured a pirate/private radio broadcaster.  Unfortunately, they accidentally caused a murder because their radio frequency accidentally triggered a bomb to explode (I don’t get the science, either) while the broadcaster was beaming out their politically charged messages.

Think of the main character from Pump Up The Volume, only spouting political philosophy without music, or a Rush Limbaugh type without the money, commercialization, or audience.  They prepare content on a regular basis about topics that interest them and verbalize it.   Quite often it’s controversial.

Think of some obsessed soul broadcasting his or her voice into the ether, trying to incite people to do stuff or at least change their thinking.  Do you think there might be some similarities between both types of people:  pirate radio broadcasters and bloggers?  Is that good or bad?

Is there anything we could learn from this?

P.S. my frequency is WMAD

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