I’ve gotta tell ya, I’ve been biting my typing fingers a lot lately, determined not to pick WUIS nits until I could pick a few from someone else. On the back burner was a “steeyeeew” on low heat because I didn’t want to let it boil until I added a few more ingerdients as [...]
News Interviews’ Buffer Rhetoric: Pointless “Thankyous”
If you believe the interviews with newsmakers you hear on NPR broadcasts include all that is said between ‘er and ‘ee, think again. Many of the interviews are edited. You don’t hear “Senator Jones? This is Bob Smith at NPR National in Washington. Do you have a few minutes to talk to me about your [...]
The FUTURE Is Not News; It’s Cheap BULL-IT-IN Cereal Filler; Not Meat
Nothing is as useless to thinking legal citizens of the United Snakes — make that States — of America as what I call pre-news: reports of what is happening tomorrow or two or three days from now, even speculative yammering about what MIGHT happen in a week or a month from now. This isn’t [...]
If You’re Just Joining Us . . . .
. . . . . just keep fiddling with the bleeding radio or television dial . . . . or “eaze on down the road,” Ms. Garland-Black. Keep caroming around your little world and find a broom stick you can crawl on (thank you theme song to The Adams Family) and go bye-bye already. [...]
