From wbz chicago, this American Life. You are listening to radio lab. Today in studio 360 i dont know how to explain this, but something happened about 15 years ago and loved it might have had you with hiphop about 15 years ago. It might have had to do with hiphop, wordy and performance oriented. Or maybe npr grew to a size that it became sort of part of everybodys i do not know. But i know what we feel, that more and more people were sort of married to it. You are point in their day, in the backseat of the car with their parents, and then they found things. Here is the weird part. In 1971, a group of people got together and said, lets make serious newsmaking radio. Walter cronkite and dan rather were kings on television of on television. The New York Times had the. Entagon papers if you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem was radio. Go, lindaira and ira go, lets be like the New York Times. It was stupid and crazy. Now, you look at people, like linda w
From wbez chicago, this American Life. You are listening to radio lab. Today in studio 360 i dont know how to explain this, but something happened about 15 years ago. It might have had to do with hiphop, wordy and performance oriented. Or maybe npr grew to a size that it became sort of part of everybodys i do not know. But i know what we feel, that more and more people were sort of married to it. You are a point in their day, in the backseat of the car with their parents, and then they graduated and found things. Here is the weird part. In 1971, a group of people got together and said, lets make serious newsmaking radio. Walter cronkite and dan rather were kings on television. The New York Times had the pentagon papers. If you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem was radio. Linda and ira go, lets be like the New York Times. It was stupid and crazy. Now, you look at people, like linda wertheimer. People in television had a thing. They had a swagger. You