Another Reason to Love NPR
I'll admit it: I'm an NPR addict. In these days where news is increasingly manipulated, spun, and dumbed-down so as to be entertaining (do we need to see the latest "American Idol" results on news programming? And isn't "Fox News" an oxymoron?), it is refreshing to listen to news and talk programming that is consistently well-thought-out, insightful, entertaining, and that covers not only current headlines, but also less-mainstream stories, with depth, journalistic commitment, and purpose.
This morning, on Morning Edition, something subtle yet absolutely brilliant was broadcast, following a long story on a new blood test that purportedly can tell the sex of a fetus with 99.9% accuracy...the musical interlude following the story, leading up to the half-hour, was just a few bars of harmonica...which those of us of a certain age group recognize as the opening bars to the 1962 hit "Hey! Baby (Will You Be My Girl?)."
Top that, Bill O'Reilly.
posted by J.Po @ 2:00 PM
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NPR's bumper music is hilarious if you can catch it. That one escaped me. The news story all but called the guy a fraud. I can't believe people fall for it.
Not only did the one woman fall for it, but was crushed that her otherwise-healthy fetus, whom she had named in utero assuming a boy based on the test, may indeed be a girl. Scary. One of the physicians interviewed made a similar comment, substituting nice clinical language for a comment along the lines of "lighten the fuck up."
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