Word: dialing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...FACED WRISTWATCH FOR CARDIAC PATIENTS, ONE DIAL DRIVEN BY THE WEARER'S PULSE, THE OTHER KEEPING A CONSTANT PACE SO WEARERS CAN GAUGE THEIR HEART RATE...
...dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE, and the "toast" that emerges five long minutes later is pale yellow. Exactly! The recalcitrant toaster must not die. It's this very duel of wits between man and machine, the struggle to outguess the little bastard's endless treacheries, that snaps the dozing mind awake every morning, sharpening...
Turning your dial to a pop radio station is like turning back to 1999. The Backstreet Boys' new album rehashes track-for-track the pointless pseudo R&B and insufferable ballads of Millennium (cool drinking game: take a shot every time you can name the Millennium song that inspired a new album cut). Perhaps the only interesting thing about Black and Blue is its odd title (didn't you expect something like Jive-in' with the Homies?). The Boys prefer to leave its meaning ambiguous, perhaps because the label chose the title and they're as befuddled...
...After a two days of listening to unchallenged invective - where are the liberal callers? is there a lock box on their phones? - I literally got an upset stomach. (Or it could have been the sushi I bought that afternoon in the TIME cafeteria.) So I rolled the dial over to New York's sports station WFAN, where Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo were doing their usual Martin-and-Lewis routine. But not about sports: about the election. And guess what? They both voted for Bush. It wasn't until late Wednesday night, on Joe Benigno's encounter-therapy...
...story biases are the same. In today's highly competitive election coverage, different stories would benefit some sectors of the media more than others. As you start your media-junkie journey around the dial and the Web today, here's a guide to which media genres win with which result...