>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>>Carl Remick wrote:
>>
>>>Chomsky was probably just being tactful. I think if we all
>>>pretended Howard Stern didn't exist, the world would be a better
>>>place.
>>
>>I think Howard Stern is funny, but maybe I just never grew up.
>
>Maybe it's because I never grew up that I still think of great radio
>as the top radio talent that existed when I was young. My fondest
>memory of the medium then was Jean Shepherd, probably the greatest
>radio raconteur ever and several galaxies' distant from Stern in
>comic style.
Well, yeah. But there are many ways to be good on the radio and elsewhere. If I were the praying type, I'd pray that God stop me from becoming one of those people who complain that everything sucks now and can't hold a candle to the way things used to be.
Doug