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Ira, Jad, and Robert
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Must listen: Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, and Robert Krulwich on the differences between radio and television. Includes such gems as how radio amplifies intimacy and television turns gesture into parody, Jad’s observation that This American Life made real people’s true stories sound like fairytales, and how Stephen Colbert is more like a radio personality (his show more like a radio show, his audience more like a radio audience) than a television one.

(My own thesis about Colbert: it’s his perfect miming of big-personality talk show hosts like Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Scarborough, Hannity, Olbermann, usw., most of whom started on radio, continue to host radio shows, and whose TV shows and audiences are still a whole lot like radio.)

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Dan says…

For a moment there I thought the title referred to “Ira Flatow,” who would not fit nearly so well.

I like Radio Lab so much more than Science Friday. So much.

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