Generally, the alternative radio projects that are occasionally tried fail because they have nothing to say that today's controllers would be afraid to have on the air. This leaves them equally trapped by the ladder of excitement but at the bottom rather than the top. They fail to generate the type of excitement that a real opposition could create. These people are putting out ostensibly subversive massages but get yawns, not even anger, from the average worker. Even more than printed media, radio and TV must talk of everything or they talk of nothing.
Pirate radio can only be subversive if it attacks the rules of society.
But it can only attack those rules when it knows them. Those who break the legal rules, from pornographers to drug pushers to rapists to polluting multi-nationals, are some of capital's best defenders. Pirate Radio Proposal Those who wish to break the rules must not only understand society. They must constantly watch how it is changing and from that see what is not changing. To be successful, pirate radio must be a break from what is permitted within mass media.