Going Loopy
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I'm a real fan of blowing things up and starting over. The words I hate, even more than "and that loss eliminates the Cleveland Indians from postseason contention" are "we've always done it this way."
That's why I'm a big fan of In the Loop, MPR's new program that believes in taking a different look at things, and involving people in our vast audience in storytelling. It's not that I'm against pointyheads and serious sobering discussion, a longtime staple of public radio, of course. It's just that I think it's OK to consider weighty issues in different ways, ways in which I don't feel a sense of despair afterwards.
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you.
So it's cool that The Loop this month -- and just in the nick of time if you ask me -- swooped in and took on the sacred cow: politics. Now a disclaimer: Jeff Horwich and Sanden Totten -- the big Loop dudes -- asked Mike Mulcahy and me to share our thoughts on what a different approach might look like. They then had the good sense not to use my cockamamie ideas.
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Which is good, since they weren't any better than this lineup:
Tom Scheck's look at "trackers"
There was more in this week's show than I got around to posting, but the Loop doesn't really have a completely functioning Web site yet.
You can hear the show tonight at 9 or download an mp3 version on their current page, however.
