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Trivial Knowledge

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Bob Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television and professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University and author, Television in the Antenna Age (Blackwell, 2005)
- talks about a new Zogby Poll that shows that Americans know much more about pop culture than news
and
Andy Borowitz humorist, columnist for the New Yorker magazine and author,
The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, October 2006)
- is our quizmaster and tests whether or not our listeners have a better knowledge of those things trivial and those things newsy

» Bob Thompson's bio
» The Borowitz Report
» Zogby Poll on the American public's knowledge of pop culture

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