Why does nobody listen to NPR?
When I arrived on the Berkeley campus this fall, I assumed everyone listened to NPR. I was wrong. I was shocked to learn that even many members of Cal Dems don’t listen to NPR! Now, I completely understand that radio is antiquated even by the standards of my parents’ generation, but NPR is quite possibly one of the best, if not the best, way of disseminating information—especially for people like college students who are always on the go. Podcasts make NPR more accessible than ever. For instance, on my way to class and to meetings I listen the greatest show ever, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me: The NPR News Quiz. When other Cal students ask “What the hell is that?” I just about fall to my knees and pray to Carl Kassel, the famed and godlike moderator of Wait Wait.