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*I think the opening post is yet another example of the greed  that is so rampant/overwhelmingly obvious in broadcast media; television more than radio, I think. They want our attention** so that (they hope) we will also watch their commercials and then (they hope even more) buy the advertised products. If we do, they can then go to the companies that paid them for the ads and say, "Gee, look how much money you made thanks to advertising through us; now why don't you either pay us a higher rate for the same ads, or pay us more to run more ads?" GRRRRRR!!!!!!!! **And one way to try to hold attention is to give "teasers" about what's coming next. Even newscasts do it, as in, "Are we in for a terrible storm? Tune in to our weather forecast after the break and find out". again. In the Joan Rivers-type ex., I think it's probably more due to having to speak "off the cuff" than anything. Apparently dead air time is the ultimate no-no, so they blather without necessarily thinking first.
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Regarding the word "blather" -- it occurs to me that dictionaries could accurately define it with a picture of Joan Rivers. Regarding those ominious "teasers" -- I remember when my children were teens (before cell phones) and out for the evening, how troubling it was to hear a 10 p.m. teaser for the 11 o'clock news, such as, "Four high school students were killed tonight in Scioto County. Details at 11." A parent can die a thousand deaths in an hour.
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And every time I see the word "stranger" there beneath my name, I always want to ask, "Stranger than what?"
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Post a couple more times, saranita, and you'll lose the stranger moniker.
Meanwhile, may I suggest the obvious re: commercials? PBS and NPR.
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<<lesser known celebrities>>
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Post 1: Lose the moniker, I may, but I shall continue to wonder what or whom I am stranger than. It's such a long list, you see.
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Anna, you elitist, you! Unfortunately, PBS and NPR don't offer the local city traffic watch, and that I gotta have. I must try harder to remember the reason I'm sacrificing quality when I get aggravated at the mistakes from the local news desk and the reporters who exclaim, "That's right!" every time an anchor cuts to one of them.
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the distinction being made was not between fame and obscurity, but between fame and infamy.
I have a bit of a profile in my region because I've been on radio. Whenever someone refers to me as "famous" I always say I prefer the term "notorious".
I remember hearing a journalist talking about trying to avoid cliches in his writing, and finding that if he referred to, say, Peter Sellers, the editor would always add "the late, great", even if the journalist hadn't put it in. Sometimes ya can't win.
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Re: redundancy
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Left Saranita's signature inadvertently. It WUZ me what said that...
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Anna, you elitist, you! Unfortunately, PBS and NPR don't offer...
However and even more unfortunately, PBS and NPR are *offering more and more commercial time for their local sponsors.
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