We caught a few minutes of the Savage Radio Show. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?' seems to be about as close as he's willing to get to actual incitement to assault, and since he isn't Henry II, who cares?
The drift of NPR into cloudcoocooland is more troubling. ABC's coverage of the Swift Boat Bording Party mentioned the conflicting data the print media had come up with. NPR's coverage of the same band of happy revisionist campers didn't. In place of awkward-facts-discovered-this-day, NPR ran a NRC response aural viginette. I suppose NPR's Volvo-and-latte demographic needed to know that President Bush is reaching out to end negative messaging more than they needed to know that the Swift Boat Bording Party appears to have struck a factual reef and is motoring across the public sea without a bottom.
One of the right-hand-side-of-the-radio-dial shows had some Administration moron go on about Iran's nuclear weapons program, which means that either the IAEA depublished their above 5.5% data while I've been deafer, blinder and dumber than usual, or that data simply hasn't made a dent in the beseiged regime dug in at Washington City and the Pentagon. What was cute was the linkage of Muqtada al-Sadr to Iran. Somewhere on the r-h-s-o-t-r-d, the Iraq War is being repurposed into the Iran War.
I'm happy to be back where "radio" means a low-power college-hosted begathon-funded community radio station, that has 90 minutes a week in French, 90 minutes a week in Arabic, 90 minutes a week in Vietnamese, 90 minutes a week in Cambodian ... an aural blogistan.
Posted by EBW at August 20, 2004 07:01 AM | TrackBack