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New Kim Kardashian on NPR
A confession: I do not know the basis for Kim Kardashian's fame. She emerges from time to time from the infotainment smog of gossip magazines at the supermarket checkout stand when we pay our Saturday visit to Safeway for paper- and cleaning- supplies. I see references to her online. But apparently she was a guest on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" program in mid-June, and this appearance has driven a vocal component of the public radio demographic to gibbering madness. (Look it up. I'm told that there are internet search engines out there.)

I can understand this. The NPR audience is mainly my age, and we look to public radio as a refuge from the celebrity-driven "culture" of the hoi polloi. At the same time, though, I think that the protests serve to reinforce the notion of epistemic closure that has so ill-served public discourse for going on a generation now.

I don't trot out the welcome wagon when cultural trailer trash wanders into my media neighborhood, but I'm also unwilling to set up barriers to the Joads. The NPR dissenters should consider the implications of their exclusionist stance.

cordially,
New that show is not a hard news program, npr equivelent of hollywood squares
who also had celebs whose provenance was a tad dodgy.
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
New Re: Kim Kardashian's fame
I've heard it's a bountiful behind. :)
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New From what I understand...
One can be famous for merely being famous.
I think the single most compelling piece of evidence for global warming is that Fox News viewers think it's a hoax.
     Kim Kardashian on NPR - (rcareaga) - (3)
         that show is not a hard news program, npr equivelent of hollywood squares - (boxley)
         Re: Kim Kardashian's fame - (a6l6e6x)
         From what I understand... - (Silverlock)

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