It’s time for Shot In The Dark’s new game, “NPR Bingo”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The challenge is this: listen to NPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game is this: Every time you hear one of the phrases below, mark off the square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you get a five in a row or four corners, you “win”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
B<\/strong><\/td>| I<\/strong><\/td> | N<\/strong><\/td> | G<\/strong><\/td> | O<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Story on”Soccer catching on in Minnesota<\/td> | “Comedian” who isn’t in the least bit funny. <\/td> | Tribal drumming. <\/td> | Ironic Farfisa | organ music. <\/td> “Palestinian | artist”<\/td><\/tr> Reference to | Climate Change<\/td> A story on “hate” using the SPLC as a source. <\/td> | Interviewee who proclaims self a “Queer Woman of Color” <\/td> | Climate Change reference in a | story about bookstores<\/td> Florid Spanish | pronunciations by non-Spanish-speaking anchor.<\/td><\/tr> Story about a | ‘Storyteller”. <\/td> Political story | using “reporters” from Vox,\u00a0<\/em> Buzzfeed,\u00a0Media<\/em> Matters<\/em> or Huffington<\/em> Post<\/em> with implied assumption that they do\u00a0<\/em> represent “the center”. <\/td> FREE SPACE<\/strong> | (Or rerun of an “Aspen Ideas Festival” piece for filler. Same thing. <\/td> “#MeToo | Movement” in a story not related to sexual harassment<\/td> More than three stories about | the border in an hour.<\/td><\/tr> “Contextualizing” | news story; “Context” = progressive chanting point. <\/td> “Queer Woman of Color” | reference in story not about sexuality or feminism<\/td> Air staffer with | pretentious pronunciation of his\/her name.<\/td> Reference to | Climate Change in a story about sports<\/td> Upper middle | class white Ivy League graduate reviewing a hip-hop record. <\/td><\/tr> A news piece | featuring Larry Sabado (or, locally, Larry Jacobs. <\/td> “Cultural | Appropriation”<\/td> “Toxic | Masculinity”<\/td> Continuing to | refer to the “Occupy Movement” as a sustained, organic thing. <\/td> Reference to | Climate change in a restaurant review. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n Keep us posted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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”. B I N G O Story on”Soccer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69982,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955\/revisions\/69982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |