{"id":2264,"date":"2014-10-09T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2014-10-09T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:21:13","slug":"the-winner-take-all-culture-beyonce-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/10\/the-winner-take-all-culture-beyonce-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"The Winner-Take-All Culture: Beyonce&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;s7QjDjoKc7tKlcAxYUDRApP9riUN4cz9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>NO, you&#8217;re not reading an article from the Onion, but rather a news report of an an extreme and literal instance\u00a0of the winner-take all culture.<\/p>\n<p>This brief <a title=\"News radio Beyonce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/mediawire\/273955\/news-station-lays-off-journalists-will-play-beyonce-songs-instead\/#.VDb0gK--hbQ.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> from Poynter, &#8220;News station lays off journalists, will play Beyonc\u00e9 songs instead,&#8221; quotes Houston Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/175px-I_Am..._Tour_11_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/175px-I_Am..._Tour_11_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"175px-I_Am..._Tour_11_cropped\" width=\"175\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>reporter David Barron:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Radio One owns the station, known as News 92 FM. Its employees \u201cwere notified shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday that the news format was being dropped and the station rebranded \u2013 for the moment \u2013 as B921, playing around-the-clock, commercial-free music by Beyonc\u00e9,\u201d Barron reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m not worried about a larger wave of radio journalists being executed and replaced by overhyped R&amp;B singers. But as a demonstration of where we are today, this is weirdly apt.<\/p>\n<p>My soon-to-be-released book, <a title=\"Yale on CC\" href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/yupbooks\/book.asp?isbn=9780300195880\" target=\"_blank\">Culture Crash<\/a>, gets into the way the larger winner-take-all-society, which has been best described by Cornell economist Robert H. Frank, works out for the creative class. Until then, this example will have to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;s7QjDjoKc7tKlcAxYUDRApP9riUN4cz9&#8243;] NO, you&#8217;re not reading an article from the Onion, but rather a news report of an an extreme and literal instance\u00a0of the winner-take all culture. This brief story from Poynter, &#8220;News station lays off journalists, will play Beyonc\u00e9 songs instead,&#8221; quotes Houston Chronicle reporter David Barron: Radio One owns the station, known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[410,39,596,27,627],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-celebrity","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-culture-crash-the-book","9":"category-journalism","10":"category-winner-take-all","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}