NPR Bingo

It’s time for Shot In The Dark’s new game, “NPR Bingo”.

The challenge is this: listen to NPR.

The game is this: Every time you hear one of the phrases below, mark off the square.

When you get a five in a row or four corners, you “win”.

BINGO
Story on”Soccer catching on in Minnesota“Comedian” who isn’t in the least bit funny. Tribal drumming. Ironic Farfisa
organ music.
“Palestinian
artist”
Reference to
Climate Change
A story on “hate” using the SPLC as a source. Interviewee who proclaims self a “Queer Woman of Color” Climate Change reference in a
story about
bookstores
Florid Spanish
pronunciations
by non-Spanish-speaking
anchor.
Story about a
‘Storyteller”.
Political story
using “reporters”
from Vox, 
Buzzfeed, Media
Matters
or Huffington
Post with implied
assumption that they do 
represent “the
center”.
FREE SPACE
(Or rerun of an “Aspen Ideas
Festival” piece
for filler. Same
thing.
“#MeToo
Movement” in a story not related to sexual
harassment
More than three stories about
the border in an
hour.
“Contextualizing”
news story;
“Context” =
progressive
chanting point.
“Queer Woman of Color”
reference in
story not about
sexuality or
feminism
Air staffer with
pretentious
pronunciation of his/her name.
Reference to
Climate Change in a story about sports
Upper middle
class white Ivy
League graduate
reviewing a
hip-hop record.
A news piece
featuring Larry
Sabado (or,
locally, Larry
Jacobs.
“Cultural
Appropriation”
“Toxic
Masculinity”
Continuing to
refer to the
“Occupy
Movement” as
a sustained,
organic thing.
Reference to
Climate change
in a restaurant
review.

Keep us posted.

5 thoughts on “NPR Bingo

  1. BINGO!!

    My card was slightly different.

    It goes:

    RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE
    GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER
    RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE
    GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER
    RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE
    GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER
    RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE
    GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER GENDER

    Guess which line won?

    Oh! Oh! My bad, I was using the MPR card.

  2. I believe thats a form a torture the CIA uses at their black sites to get info from terrorists.

  3. I heard on MPR today, yes I tuned in, I still listen to the BBC on public radio, ask me why? I dunno. Anyway MPR acknowledged that they fell short of their membership drive goals.

    Is that what happens when you alienate half your audience?

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