Friday, August 31, 2007

The Truth About People Who Listen to NPR

Wonker is consistently amazed at the number of folks who claim to listen to NPR religiously. Dull, sanctimonious, and condescending, their gasbagging newsreaders and pundits project the level of sophistication encountered by the average high school student being put down by the sneering twits and brainless jocks of the school's self-proclaimed "in" crowd.

Nonetheless, students on the social margin feel strangely compelled to be seen "associating" with these dorks, perhaps in hopes of catching an invite to their next regularly scheduled beer pong social. Or, more likely, they hope to raise, ever so slightly, their slim to nonexistent social profile. Yet at the same time, they feel secretly soiled. (Sounds like the average Democrat, actually.)

Musing on this phenomenon, imagine our delight when we stumbled upon this little artifact residing at an offbeat blog called PostSecret. Enjoy. (Hat tip to TigerHawk for the lead.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Gasp, I listen to NPR because it's the only other station in the NY Metro area that has classical music, both on its main channel (digital) and on its secondary digital channel. (WNYC) WBGO, an NPR station in Newark, is the ONLY station in the New York area that plays jazz. When I visit western New York, NPR stationos are the only radio stations on the air. I just don't listen to the "news."

Isaac Bienstalker