Hey, just because I refuse to make resolutions for myself doesn’t mean that I have to refuse to make them for others, too. Here are some things that Brooke and Bob should consider for the coming year. 1. Get Bob a better microphone. For the last few weeks, it’s sounded like Bob has been coming [...]
Within the last few months, I’ve adopted a new name. Kerry and I are not Mr. and Mrs. Trisler – not least of all because that still sounds like my parents – but Matthew and Kerry Crawford Trisler. I’ve even made the difficult decision to abandon my old pseudonym, William Wolfe. In fact, if you [...]
It’s a Bob-only recap with a bullet, because bullet points make things easier to read. At least, that’s what upper management says. So, here goes: – The president makes speeches and hardly anyone listens, save for the media, proving that whole Fireside Chat thing wrong. According to the awesomely named political scientist George Edwards III, [...]
We’re all alone with Bob Garfield and his sweater this week. Brooke Gladstone is off writing her book, or at least she’s supposed to be. Bob seems to have his doubts. This week is all about the sickness. The show opens with a story on health segments on news shows, specifically the ones that talk [...]
Hey, it looks like we’ve some new rules to play by, but we’ve been pretty good about abiding by them anyway – basically, you can’t be shilling something as a blogger without being up front about it. You all know that we’re not paid to do this, right? That we don’t make a damn thing from [...]
Confession time: despite watching a freakish amount of Nick at Nite during my childhood, I’ve never seen the “Twilight Zone” (for what it’s worth, I think I’ve seen every episode of the “Andy Griffith Show”, “Leave it to Beaver” and “F-Troop” in existence). The “Twilight Zone” isn’t the kind of thing I’m usually into, but [...]
Every week when I sit down to recap, I get all excited that maybe – just maybe – this will be the week that Brooke returns from her leave. Nothing against Bob, but I miss Brooke (and I think he does too, despite sounding almost giddy announcing Katya’s editorial credit at the end of the [...]
This week’s “On the Media” is a collection of the show’s commentary on how the Internet is changing the ways we communicate. Which, you might think, would result in a recap made from a collection of our commentary on how Bob Garfield doesn’t get it, and how Brooke Gladstone does. That wouldn’t be wrong, if [...]
This week’s episode intro starts with the usual story highlights and ends with Bob saying “Stay tuned for all sorts of wrong stuff.” There’s potential for plenty of wrong – Brooke is off again this week, and Bob is using words like “fomenting”. The first story is about people that think that President Obama wasn’t [...]
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Why Public Radio Works For Me
One of the things I’ve always loved about the public radio approach is the exploratory attitude the hosts/correspondents/commentators/reporters take when dealing with an unfamiliar topic. This effect is most pronounced when the person talking needs to explain the relevance of the subject. One of the greatest strengths of “Planet Money” is that the show’s staff [...]