[Alumni-chat] Inclusion?

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/2/2007 8:26:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  sjr5 at nyu.edu 
writes:

I've  listened to Limbaugh on occasion just so I know what the "enemy" 
is  thinking. But eventually he makes me sick or too angry. Humor? Is 
it funny  for feminists to be labeled "feminazis"? Is it political 
humor when he  lies? (Don't ask me for examples... I haven't listened 
in a long time.)  


Well, if you like Limbaugh, you should live in central Indiana.  When  I was 
on the Alumni Board, and driving down from Minnesota to the thrice yearly  
meetings, there was this black zone, or total Limbaugh area from where you ran  
out of Chicago radio stations, and emerged from the dark zone where you could  
again find an NPR station or the Indinapolis station that did rather tepid  
classical music.  
 
Used to be you could drive cross country, and listen in for half an hour or  
so to really local stuff -- you know the announcements of who was in the  
hospital, and who had delivered a baby, and then discussion of a local city  
council meeting and all.  It was a way of lightly taking a sample of a  segment of 
America.  But Clear Channel and all the rest of them ended all  that, making 
for about 140 miles of only Limbaugh like him or not.  I  cannot stand more 
than about two minutes of him at a time, and then I need a 6  month interval.  
Now North of Chicago you have real choices.   Wisconsin Public Radio does lots 
of local production, but carries some NPR  programs, Iowa Public Radio is also 
somewhat more local, but Minnesota Public  Radio is a total empire, with three 
channels (many more when everything gets  digital) and you get a huge 
selection of up-scale programs.  From Northern  Illinois along the Mississippi North, 
you can hear all three and enjoy.  So  if you don't like Limbaugh, that is 
where you should try to live.  If your  bridge over the Mississippi falls down, 
it is the one certain place that the  next morning they will be ready with 
hour long programs on the chemistry of  metal fatigue in Highway bridges, 
followed by cost and aesthetics of design of  modern bridges, then followed by an 
hour's review of funding of bridges and  Highways by the Minnesota Legislature 
over the past 20 years, followed by a  critique of the local and national 
Television coverage of the Bridge  Collapse.  (Anyone want to know why Garrison 
Keillor calls us all "above  average" -- we work at it.)    



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