I realized over the past two weeks that print is a very different world than radio. This was always implicitly obvious. But it wasn’t until I started writing my own radio show that the differences were so apparent. What you can say in writing, you have to show in radio. Your arguments are too amorphous if they’re not grounded in reality.

That’s partly why the Age of Persuasion is such a successful radio show about media. It takes actual advertising clips and plays them. When it’s not being “visual” that way, its personalities are busy venturing into space or transporting through time (through the technology of canned sound effects). You can do this in print, but it’s much easier in radio (in practice). But it’s also much much harder, because you need to create and use sounds instead of words, which are free and easy to come by.

Hopefully I’ll finish this radio script and my radio colleague will be satisfied with the product. This my goal this week. On top of putting out a newspaper.