Dear Brooke and Bob -
Hey, y’all. How’s it going?
I’m doing alright. I’m sitting in my kitchen, baking some cookies and listening to the most recent episode of your show.
Brooke, Bob, I hate to say this, but I feel like we’re growing apart. It’s not that you’re not doing a great job – you are. The reporting on “On the Media” is brilliant as always, and you two are still asking the thoughtful, intelligent questions that I’ve come to expect from you.
The thing is, I feel like we’re having the same conversation over and over again. Times are tough – there’s a hotly contested election between two polar opposites. The economy is in the pooper. Newspapers are dying. Clearly, there’s a lot to report. The good news is, you do a wonderful job of covering the coverage. The bad news is, I feel like I’m listening to the same thing every day.
I work at the Web site of one of those dying newspapers. We have CNN on all day. I have the awesome scrolling Digg feed screen saver. I read the New York Times. I listen to a lot of radio. Lately, I feel like I’m not hearing anything interesting or new. It seems like it’s the same stories, just told on different days. I’m getting a major case of media fatigue, and I hate that.
So what I’m wondering is this – can you help me out? Can you put some of the stories that you usually put at the end of the episode at the front? You know which ones I’m talking about – the ones on product placement and actors and all of the wonderful things that media can do.
I’m not looking for escapism, only variety. Can you help me out? There are fresh baked cookies for you if you can.
Thanks!
Kerry
P.S. I just got to the ending of the show, and the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name is out in full force this week. Bob, you asked Brooke to say “W” again, and then cooed a bit after she said it. I’ll admit – she does have a lovely voice. Still, though – this is family radio, people!
P.P.S. Y’all want to come to the wedding?
This post was written by Kerry and published without the consent of Matthew, because he’s off selling computers to people.
3 Comments
my thoughts EXACTLY.
i kept thinking, “haven’t i heard this story before?”
cheers.
Dear Kerry,
We do keep dicing the same garlic, but with a different angle each time, no? Buffet love, anti-Muslim assumptions…I suspect you may be frustrated with the top of this week’s show, too. It just seems the wrong time to stray from politics.
The election will be over soon. Meanwhile, this campaign/crisis combo is bizarrely fascinating, at least to me. Ah, well.
Wish you were having the wedding here. I so would come.
Cheers and congrats,
Brooke
Hi Brooke -
I agree with you on the election/crisis combo. And I promise it’s not you – you do indeed chop the garlic differently every week. I think I’m just getting a generally burnt out by news. Any tips for preventing that?
Thanks for the congrats and for reading,
K
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