07 September 2005
in my past as a corporate drone, i knew a lot of people who listened to npr in their cubes. i can totally understand that now. it doesn't distract, it doesn't draw attention to itself, which, given the larger culture, is, as they say, a breath of "fresh air" (hey, look, ma, i wrote a new yorker cartoon!). it's like--get used to the similes--one of the lesser brian eno albums, maybe not music for films, but maybe music for films iii. it's a show where somone will say the word "hastings" and expect the listener to know what he means (the cal-berkeley law school). insular, then. |
my name is fred solinger. on wednesday, september 7, i will provide running commentary on seventeen straight hours of running commentary, opinion, and straight news from a variety of radio stations and television networks. my objective is to be objective ... beyond that, i'm not quite sure, but hopefully it'll be more lucid at 4am, when all of this is over. one thing is for sure: i won't be lucid at that hour. links to the monitored programs, arranged ideologically*, in alphabetical order, lest i be charged w/ bias: the fair & balanced: the left: the right: *that is, when the host has an avowed political position; otherwise, they are assumed to be independent. this is as applicable to bill o'reilly, who leans right, as it is to jon stewart, who leans left.    |