Tech Daily Dose: Ugh, Poetry: T'was The Night Before Recess http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/ugh-poetry-twas-the-night-befo.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:03:19 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Ugh, Poetry: T'was The Night Before Recess The good folks at Edelman who do the flacking for the musicFirst coalition must have spiked their office party eggnog. The group, which wants AM and FM radio stations to pay royalties to artists, has released a "T'was The Night Before Recess" holiday poem and it just begged to be blogged.

The coalition, which is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America and others, sent the poem to Capitol Hill on Wednesday. They are obviously still celebrating Tuesday's introduction of legislation in both chambers, which could be summed up as their biggest Christmas wish. Read more in Technology Daily's PM Edition.

The lengthy poem, penned to the cadence of "T'was the Night Before Christmas," can be read after the jump. No word yet on whether the National Association of Broadcasters will create rebuttal prose. NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton is pretty good at whipping up snarky comebacks so I'm sure he's hard at work.

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