Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!



Here is a link to the assignment from today. If you liked Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!, you can download a number of episodes for free from the "Podcasts" section of iTunes.

Here is a streaming link to the episode that we listened to today.

Please remember to turn the assignment in no later than the start of class (for full credit) on google docs.

If you have any questions, you can post them here.


1 comment:

jshuba said...

For some odd reason my message keeps saying permenant failure so i just copied and pasted it here hopefully i can figure out the problem for future assignments.


Radio Broadcasting is the sending of information using a radio frequency. I don't know much about the technical aspects of radio all i know is that its transmitted from the towers. I do not like listening to the radio. I feel this way because I can get music off of Youtube if i wanted it, also i dont like not being able to see anything. I listen to the radio about 2 and a half hours a week, because my bus driver has it on in the backround of the bus. I do not think the radio is relevent in our modern age. I believe this, because now the internet and television is takeing over. the only time myslef or my family uses the radio is if we forgot the CDs for the car and we are bored on the road. I am sure that this is the case with many of my friends as well.

My first impressions when i heard we were going to listen to the radio, was "omg im going to fall asleep". The broadcast is different from Tv, in the fact that you could call the station and get to be on the show or whatnot, with Tv you can't do that. My ideas on the show are its bareable.I wouldn't listen to it if i had a choice. The only aspect I liked was the idea of the ability to call up and play a game with the station host. The aspect i did not like was how boring it was, it had its funny parts, but it was dragged out and you could't see them wich made it confusing at times as to whom was talking. After listining to the radio today, my thoughts and feelings are still the same twoards the radio. This is because of the fact that when i want music, i don't want to hear the host talking. And sometimes the host can not make a good playlist for example, he or she will have a fast motivating song and then a slow mellow one right after. That drives me insane. Al so the fact that some of the topics are so stupid at points it reminds me of the playground in 5th grade.

Jshuba