Paul Davis On Crime: Christmas music

Despite the grumbling of some folks about Christmas music, Paul Bond at Billboard.biz reports that radio stations that switched to the all Christmas music format have raised their ratings, and in some cases, the radio stations doubled their ratings.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/how-an-all-christmas-music-format-doubles-1005618152.story

I was pleased to read this report, as I love Christmas music.

I wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer a few years back about Christmas music and the musical celebration of Jesus Christ.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://home.comcast.net/~pauldavisoncrime/pwpimages/CarolsCommentaryPhiladelphiaInquirerDec5th2005.jpg

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Christmas Carols Still Defy Secularism

As in past years, I've heard a good number of people complain about Christmas music, which has been playing around the clock on some radio stations since Thanksgiving.

But I'm not complaining, as I love Christmas music.

As I noted in a commentary for The Philadelphia Inquirer back in 2005, our greatest composers and musical performers have produced our classic Christmas carols. And Christmas carols are perhaps the only public medium where you will hear an artistic celebration of the birth and life of Jesus Christ.

You can read my commentary on Christmas carols below:

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Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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Christmas Carols Still Defy Secularism

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