According to this story yesterday on NPR’s “All Things Considered”:
In South Africa, 55 percent of the content on radio stations as well as community and public TV has to be local.
Nigeria has a law that more than 70 percent of the music played on radio must be by local artists.
Kenyan artists want Kenya to do the same. Musicians there are pushing for a law that would force Kenyan radio stations to devote 70 percent of their playlists to Kenyan music (and 70 percent of TV programming to Kenyan films).
Sounds utterly ridiculous. But just as ridiculous are Americans who want tariffs, quotas, restrictions, and bans on all or certain imported goods.
5:51 pm on August 19, 2015
