Merry Christmas, public radio lovers! Don’t you kind of wish you were at the NPR Christmas party? Take a second to imagine that – Carl Castle in a burgundy smoking jacket and slippers, padding around with a hotty toddy making sure everyone is having a good time, Ira Glass pretending he doesn’t notice that Terry [...]
Today’s On the Media was all about mind control. A segment on subliminal advertising opened with Bob saying “The word sex written in Ritz Crackers. Naked women in ice cubes.” That’s not subliminal advertising. That’s what Carl Castle calls “Monday”. Bob interviews Mark Crispin Miller, who is a professor of media ecology. Though I’m not [...]
Matthew and I were on the phone one night, discussing the latest episode of On The Media. The episode was pretty much the typical media watchdogging that we’ve come to expect: a long examination into the latest CIA report about Iran’s unsurprising lack of nuclear weapons and an in-depth look at the dire plight of [...]
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