Happy leap year, everybody!
If you’re like me, you just kind of go along with the concept of a leap year, never really asking why.
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Happy science Friday, y’all!
I love Morning Edition - I love the velvety voice of Carl Cassell. I way the Renee Montagne sounds like she kinda can’t stand Steve Inskeep. When I stayed with Matthew over Christmas, I terrified and amazed him by waking up at exactly 5 a.m. every day to demand that he switch the radio […]
I wish I had thought to check npr.org this morning before work. If I had, I would have noticed the link to submit to the Bryant Park Project’s Oscar night red carpet photo caption contest. The winners have been announced, and sadly, like the Oscars themselves, the winners were a bit disappointing.
Think you can […]
I want to keep this week’s “On the Media” recap short-ish; I’m having a terribly busy day, and haven’t done the usual pre-writing that both Kerry and I do.That said, there’s a lot of stuff in this episode worthy of extreme praise, rather than the general snark I unleash on exceptionally bad programming decisions (usually […]
My ex-girlfriend bought me the sixth season of “The West Wing” for my birthday last year. I finally got around to sitting down to it.* It’s the season in which they introduce Matt Santos, the character who will, by the end of the season, I’m sure, become the Democratic presidential candidate.
You better believe there’s […]
Can anyone tell me why everytime I edit anything it loses all paragraph breaks?Quick, please!
I get excited about elections like college basketball fans get excited about March Madness. I’m positively giddy that the Democratic race is so hotly contested, and as much as I prefer one candidate over the other, I’d love to see the whole thing come down to the convention.
As the returns from the primaries come […]
According to Real Simple magazine, the secret to a happy marriage is listening to NPR. They’re absolutely right. If it wasn’t for NPR, Matthew would never be able to fact check me when I call him in the wee hours of Morning Edition to tell him important bits of breaking news. Not that I’ve ever […]
I came across this interesting story about the decline of PBS. Though PBS is losing viewers, public radio has undergone major audience growth in the last few years. Coincidence? We think not. “Antiques Roadshow” is no “This American Life”.
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More Election Coverage, an NYT Smack Down, and Why Journalists Should Never Be Funny
Remember how excited I was two weeks ago when “On the Media” managed to go a whole hour without mentioning the election once? They must have noticed that they were slipping in their somewhat obsessive coverage, because this week, every single segment is somehow election related.
The show opens with a sexy segment on John McCain. […]