From Slate, a pretty cool new feature that we're going to try to keep up with: They've taken the simple idea of Studs Terkel's outstanding oral history book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do -- " the best book you were assigned in college but didn’t read" -- and turned it into a podcast. It's a series of interviews by David Plotz, asking people what they do at their jobs -- with a bit of a shift in emphasis from Terkel, who wanted to know how people feel about their jobs, to much more detail about how the job gets done.
Stephen has been using the conservative pundit conceit for 17 years now, brilliantly. How will he do on late-night television without it? I don't think he will be happy being just funny. He is a man with a mission. Soapboxes aren't usually funny, which is the genius of the Colbert pundit persona. Maybe the network will let him continue the premise. I would if it were my network.
I think the serious tone of the podcast rubbed off on me. This comment was snarkless. Or would have been if comments were allowed.
"with a bit of a shift in emphasis from Terkel, who wanted to know how people feel about their jobs, to much more detail about how the job gets done." It is with this "bit of a shift" that the focus is taken off the thoughts and feelings of the person and the job is thrust to the foreground. Plotz completely misses the point.
I imagine that what Colbert would tell Studs if he could is what we all would tell him: "Thank you."
Stephen has been using the conservative pundit conceit for 17 years now, brilliantly. How will he do on late-night television without it? I don't think he will be happy being just funny. He is a man with a mission. Soapboxes aren't usually funny, which is the genius of the Colbert pundit persona. Maybe the network will let him continue the premise. I would if it were my network.
I think the serious tone of the podcast rubbed off on me. This comment was snarkless. Or would have been if comments were allowed.
Hey, hey, hey! I didn't get no assslap!! </mope>
Because Martin Lawrence was busy?
We have Time Warner Cable. How can you not know this?
Attention Fartknocker . . . you can actually get <i>paid</i> for what you&#039;re doing!
"with a bit of a shift in emphasis from Terkel, who wanted to know how people feel about their jobs, to much more detail about how the job gets done." It is with this "bit of a shift" that the focus is taken off the thoughts and feelings of the person and the job is thrust to the foreground. Plotz completely misses the point.