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...some great impersonations and some middling song parodies, this is, in the end, a talk show about breasts. "You can go to other talk stations," says Opie, "but they talk about politics and stuff my dad is interested in. Who cares?" And O&A listeners, unlike those of most call-in shows, don't call in with questions but stay on the air to trade jokes, or just e-mail them in to be read on air. Since their home station, WNEW-FM, spends little advertising the show, the jocks have built their audience by putting on road shows, inviting...
...amendment would be disastrous. "Look what happened in India," he says. "Hindu women have been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari, founder of Sparkle, Nepal's only all-female rock band, told listeners...
...Mario Batali have taken their chef stars on the road in their own travel series. As Tsai puts it, "The network wanted to get us out of the kitchen." The few remaining hard-core cooking shows succeed because they have a gimmick, like Sara Moulton's stump-the-chef call-in show Cooking Live. "If I were doing a straight cooking show," says Moulton, "I don't think I'd still...
...settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot with a homemade picket sign...
...settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot with a homemade picket sign...