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In a subcategory called “Extreme, outrageous and offensive calls,” the authors refer to “a new genre of phone-ins [in the US] whose whole raison d'être is for the presenter to pour abuse on those who call.”
In Britain, the Kosovo conflict has been squeezed off the front pages of many papers this week by extensive coverage of the murder Monday of Jill Dando, a popular TV presenter, who was shot in the head with a pistol on her front doorstep in west London.
It includes comments like I'm a first-time (or virgin) caller, I really enjoy your program (which alternates with You really have a great program tonight) , and Thank you for taking my call . I have never fathomed the purpose of the first; the second is pure sycophancy; and the third is patently ludicrous, for if a presenter of a phone-in program refused calls it would not be a phone-in program.
On the whole, despite the preliminary screening that callers are subjected to, mainly in order to eliminate cranks, drunks, and undesirables, those who do get through rarely have anything of moment to contribute, the presenters are notably unsympathetic in eliciting a fair exposure of their comments, and the listener is (too) often left with the feeling that the presenter has been too dismissive.
Sometimes the focus on the presenter pays off, as when we see the six-foot scientist looking like a small child beside Chris Greener, the tallest man in Britain, or witness Leroi's faint chagrin at discovering that his DNA is mostly European, despite his cosmopolitan family history.
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