{"id":77071,"date":"2021-03-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77071"},"modified":"2021-03-03T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:29:53","slug":"the-medium-garbles-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77071","title":{"rendered":"The Medium Garbles The Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Podcasts are all the rage.\u00a0 I hate podcasts.\u00a0 They remind me of sitting in fourth grade class when the teacher says, &#8220;You read silently while I read aloud.&#8221;\u00a0 I was done with the chapter and bored long before the teacher finished.<\/p><p>Worse, the skills needed to be a good writer are not identical to those of a good speaker. Podcasters may have\u00a0good things to say, but it&#8217;s torture to listen to them say them.\u00a0<\/p><p>Our Gracious Host, of course, has training and experience in both sides &#8211; print and radio &#8211; so this is not a dig at him.\u00a0 But I miss reading guys like Scott Adams and Mark Steyn.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>No dig taken, JD.   And I&#8217;m with you &#8211; I don&#8217;t much care for podcasts, and I&#8217;m slow in warming to audio books, for that matter.   Part of it is that so many of them have such lousy production values &#8211; and yes, that may sound shallow, but poor audio quality, bad mic technique and a lousy speaking voice are very analogous to terrible grammar and lousy style.  They&#8217;re integral parts of the medium.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It even happens with &#8220;polished, professional&#8221; podcasts.   &#8220;The Daily&#8221;, the New York Times&#8217; daily podcast, is hosted by Michael Barbaro.  Leaving aside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/public-radio-execs-question-credibility-of-nyt-s-michael-barbaro-after-caliphate-retraction\/ar-BB1cHbuh\">Barbaro&#8217;s history of hackery<\/a>, he has the most annoying &#8220;radio voice&#8221; anywhere.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still much prefer reading. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasts are all the rage.\u00a0 I hate podcasts.\u00a0 They remind me of sitting in fourth grade class when the teacher says, &#8220;You read silently while I read aloud.&#8221;\u00a0 I was done with the chapter and bored long before the teacher finished. Worse, the skills needed to be a good writer are not identical to those [&hellip;]<\/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-77071","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\/77071","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=77071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77077,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77071\/revisions\/77077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}