quare id faciam?

Give me the kick in the ass

(If I'm required to choose.)

'NPR has the reputation for being serious radio, a reputation it sometimes still deserves. But it also at times carries a pretty strong thread of the ridiculous, not to mention the pretentious.' So this fellow believes anyway.

Later: This afternoon, found myself working in someone's living room where the TV was being watched. It was on MSNBC, the cable news channel, and I had to endure the 'news' shows called Tucker and Hardball for a while. I don't have cable at home, so I tend to forget that this is the character of so much popular broadcast journalism. Oh man, what deeply disturbing material! Hard to take, even for half an hour. But a good reminder that NPR's seriousness, under current cultural conditions, means more in the balance than all its ridiculousness or pretentiousness do.

posted by paul bowman @ 11:20 PM