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Monthly Archives: November 2008

NPR’s New CEO Might Be Computer Jesus

  It’s nice to know that after the whole BPP cancellation debacle, someone at NPR heard our cries.   Vivian Schiller, formerly of NYTimes.com, was named the new CEO of NPR.   Schiller has been managing the daily operations of NYTimes.com, which means she’s a digital media badass. The NYT seems to take the same [...]

Public Radio Poetry: Dean Young, “Resignation Letter”

Quite often I set something down to do something else. I’ll put down one book to read another. I’ll forget to flip the record because I realized, one track in, in that I needed to do the dishes, which don’t get finished because I needed to load the washing machine. The wet clothes in the [...]

NPR Sampler: Days Off Mean Media Avoidance

I took a much-needed day off from work today and tried to avoid my computer. It didn’t go so well. I did manage to avoid most news, though, which was a nice change. Apparently, quite a bit happened today. The Obamas met with the Bushes, and I really hope that at some point, Laura pulled [...]

OTM Highlights, 11/7: Now that it’s over, I miss the election.

The election is over, kids. You can go to bed without thrashing around in doubt and/or fear, wondering if your favorite candidate would make it into the particular office they were running for. If you care about Congressional elections (you DO, right?), then we’ll see you again in two years. But we all know which [...]

Better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone.

You’ve heard the news by now. If you’ve got any sense in you, you’ve jumped up and down a couple times with some sense of excitement or frustration. No one, it seems had it in them to stand still last night. And yes, I’m as relieved as anyone else to just know that Bob Garfield [...]

Hey. What are you doing here?

You should be at an election party like we are, enjoying election themed foods and drinks. If you’re looking for us, we’ll be over on our twitter, hitting the highlights all night long. Happy election, y’all, and good luck.

What do you see when you turn out the lights?

I do almost everything differently at night. Which is to say less that I drive a different route home at night than I do when I leave in the morning (which is true – I still haven’t figured out which is really quicker) than that the senses work differently. For the sense of sight, this [...]

OTM Highlights 10/31: The scariest thing about this recap? Lyle Lovett

Hello, everybody! It’s the last recap before the longest election in the history of the world, and this time, I don’t feel moderately annoyed by Brooke and Bob’s election coverage. Then again, little could annoy me more than the song stuck in my head, “Strangers in the Night.” After 20 months, the election is finally, [...]