NPR: New Power Radio!
In its desperation to attract younger listeners, National Public Radio has engaged in a "visioning process" centered around a programming initiative code-named Zack. The first Zack-inspired programming will make its debut this fall.
Over the weekend, a disgruntled NPR employee -- call him Deep Voice -- leaked a secretly made recording of a recent Zack brainstorming session to Media Guy. An excerpt:
Male Staffer No. 1: Wow, so words like "Iraq" and "President Bush" and "Alberto Gonzales" don't appear anywhere at all, do they?
Leader: Keep in mind that RedEye was surely heavily focus-grouped. I think we can learn from Tribune executives' findings that young people today are --
Female Staffer No. 2: Stupid?
Male Staffer No. 2: High?
[Note: This might be satire. -- Ed.]
[Note: The last note might be ironic. -- Ed.]
Papal Progress: He Finally Gets It!
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to "admit blame and promise to sin no more", they risked "eternal damnation - the inferno".
Hell "really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more".
Musings on Literary Laziness
"Is it always a good thing to read an entire book? When I was a graduate student, it dawned on me that I often had the most intelligent things to say about books I'd only half- or quarter-read. I was surprised by my observation — it didn't seem to make sense. But it just seemed to work out that professors preferred my insightful and trenchant comments on, say, the first part of Tristram Shandy than on the whole wandering thing.
In that way, a little knowledge can be a practical thing."
Quotation of the Day
As Albert was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot."
Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before. Einstein replied, "Because up to now everything was in order."
In its desperation to attract younger listeners, National Public Radio has engaged in a "visioning process" centered around a programming initiative code-named Zack. The first Zack-inspired programming will make its debut this fall.
Over the weekend, a disgruntled NPR employee -- call him Deep Voice -- leaked a secretly made recording of a recent Zack brainstorming session to Media Guy. An excerpt:
Male Staffer No. 1: Wow, so words like "Iraq" and "President Bush" and "Alberto Gonzales" don't appear anywhere at all, do they?
Leader: Keep in mind that RedEye was surely heavily focus-grouped. I think we can learn from Tribune executives' findings that young people today are --
Female Staffer No. 2: Stupid?
Male Staffer No. 2: High?
[Note: This might be satire. -- Ed.]
[Note: The last note might be ironic. -- Ed.]
Papal Progress: He Finally Gets It!
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to "admit blame and promise to sin no more", they risked "eternal damnation - the inferno".
Hell "really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more".
Musings on Literary Laziness
"Is it always a good thing to read an entire book? When I was a graduate student, it dawned on me that I often had the most intelligent things to say about books I'd only half- or quarter-read. I was surprised by my observation — it didn't seem to make sense. But it just seemed to work out that professors preferred my insightful and trenchant comments on, say, the first part of Tristram Shandy than on the whole wandering thing.
In that way, a little knowledge can be a practical thing."
Quotation of the Day
As Albert was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot."
Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before. Einstein replied, "Because up to now everything was in order."
posted by Dave at 9:04 AM
4 Comments:
It's not literary laziness? It's sensible? Thank the gods!
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Becky, just my thoughts. As I prepare to re-enter Grad school, it's a great relief to know I'll 'appear' to be smarter by half-reading, half deducing. It's just my style ;)
And it saves a LOT of time! Good luck, chelseagirl!
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