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Soap, No Radio
Jun. 8th, 2003 04:22 pmThis afternoon on "The Sunday Show," which airs on bothWNYC (a local NPR station) and XM satellite radio, Jonathan Schwartz read the entirety of Brent Staples' editorial "Mourning the Death of American Radio" from today's Times.
( if you don't like the song, wait twenty minutes )
Also on the front page of the Times online, a cartoon diagram: "What Was Found in Sammy Sosa's Other Bats," in which one of the items is "Only known videotape of Tina Brown's American Idol audition."
Oh, if only.
Lastly (update): I mentioned that cartoon at our Sunday seisiun, and someone said, "Gee, I wonder who the Times plagiarized that from," and I felt a surge of anger on the Times's behalf. The New York Times has more editorial integrity in one pica than most right-wing media has in total. I didn't lay into the guy; he was just trying to make a current-events wisecrack, and it wasn't worth pointing out the inaccuracy of the gibe. But I'm hurting for the old grey lady.
( if you don't like the song, wait twenty minutes )
Also on the front page of the Times online, a cartoon diagram: "What Was Found in Sammy Sosa's Other Bats," in which one of the items is "Only known videotape of Tina Brown's American Idol audition."
Oh, if only.
Lastly (update): I mentioned that cartoon at our Sunday seisiun, and someone said, "Gee, I wonder who the Times plagiarized that from," and I felt a surge of anger on the Times's behalf. The New York Times has more editorial integrity in one pica than most right-wing media has in total. I didn't lay into the guy; he was just trying to make a current-events wisecrack, and it wasn't worth pointing out the inaccuracy of the gibe. But I'm hurting for the old grey lady.
