"While the shows -- even the least obnoxious ones -- are cast as conversations about sports, there is no conversing going on. It's all about eliciting emotional responses instead of intellectual ones."He's referring to sports talk radio in the U.S.; it's totally different in Canada, of course. Feel free to indulge that hoser haughtiness.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Raised on the radio
Craig Calcaterra over ShysterBall is a favourite, especially when he's explaining why sports talk radio kind of exists on a bogus premise:
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That is true of all sports media - read any column in the Star/Sun for the exact same kind of illogical crap. The difference with radio is that oftentimes there's a chance for the layman to call the host on the assumptions he/she makes, something that's barely a possibility for the self-important insulated newspaper columnists of the day.
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