Those damn Clear Channel guys are at it again

Ok, this is one of those times when a press release actually came to our office and didn’t go into the junk mail folder. It seems the local radio arm of Clear Channel, those whipping boys of the alternative press, are giving $93,000 this week to the School Arts Project to provide funding for music, art and theater programs in the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Schools…you know, those programs which don’t help train people to be Wal-Mart checkers and so don’t qualify for actual funding by the state.

Add this to the $25,000 they gave last fall as an emergency gift to KBEM, the Minneapolis Schools’ jazz station, when that station lost its state funding. And then throw in a few million they’ve raised for other Minnesota charities over the years with their Sampler CDs on Cities 97, and maybe you’ll want to ask yourself if they don’t deserve a little notice for that.

Now, if they’ll just get Kenny G off their jazz station…