It has become routine to see/hear/read an interview with the same book author/film director/songwriter etc. etc. on not one, not two, but 5-7 supposedly independent unique shows or columns.
You know what I'm talking about.
Terry Gross will interview the author of X book.
Two days later I'm hearing Allison Stewart interview the same person.
Another day or two go by and--oh, look who's being interviewed again! (Will I learn something new this time?)
What does this tell us?
Producers of these shows are either lazy or underpaid/over-extended or both.
The programming producers of radio, television and podcasts need to step it up a notch.
This is ridiculous. We live in a country with thousands and thousands of artists and projects and there is no reason (other than casual semi-conscious sleepwalking through your job descriptions) for us to be learning of 3 or 4 new projects when we could be discovering 40 or 50.
And while we're on the subject I would like to report that having just promoted a production of my own, I was repeatedly amazed at the degree to which coverage I read in newspapers or online sites simply repurposed entire paragraphs from our press releases with zero editorial input.
This is all yet more evidence of the fact that we have allowed our media outlets to be starved to near extinction.
What the hell are we prepared to do to save them?
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