Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Wammo IV - Author Says Airheads Are Taking Over
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo IV - Airheads Author Says We're Being Taken Over
KiwiFM Audio: (click here to
listen) - KiwiFM's Wammo interviews Shelley Gare,
author of the Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat From
Common Sense. The airheads are winning and so are airhead
values. We live in a world where ignorance is not just
bliss, it's celebrated. Celebrities are multiplying like
tadpoles; millionaires are breeding even faster; values have
gone out the window, and commonsense has run off with the
pool-boy.
Soon we'll be talking about Paris Hilton for US president. Even the current president doesn't know the difference between Sweden and Switzerland. Shelley Gare has written an insightful, sharp and funny book about how our society is losing the plot. In a series of snapshots covering everything from the rise of the jargon-speaking HR manager to our obsession with cushions, cafes and lifestyle, from the rise of the empty-headed It-girls to the multi-million dollar payouts to failed CEOs, The Triumph of the Airheads looks at how our society has been turned upside-down.
Wammo has launched a podcast…
Check it out by clicking on the image
(left).
ALSO: Tune into KiwiFM Mornings
with
Wammo 10am till 2pm weekdays - KiwiFM 102.2FM Akl
102.1FM Wgtn 102.5FM ChCh
Scoop Launches Audio and Video Podcast Feed
http://www.scoop.co.nz/feeds/podcast/index.rss
Copy
this url & paste it into your podcast software's
'subscribe to podcast' field (usually within
the advanced menu)
Need free podcasting
software? Check out:
Juice open source cross platform
application(formerly ipodder) or the popular Apple
itunes cross platform
application.
Scoop
Scoop Independent News
Scoop is NZ's largest independent news source; respected widely in media, political, business and academic circles for being the place on the internet for publishing "what was really said", and for the quality of its analysis of issues.
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
Binoy Kampmark: Censorship Wars, Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content
Gordon Campbell: On The Public Sector Carnage, And Misogyny As Terrorism
Ramzy Baroud: NATO’s Never-ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering