Now this: Radio, Television-- and the Real World"From a lifetime of reporting and commentating for local radio, the CBS Radio Network, ABC News, and NPR, Judy Muller has developed an acute sense of the ironic and perverse in her profession. Not since Linda Ellerbee has an insider delivered as hilarious and telling an exploration of the world behind the microphone, where getting a big interview is often more important than what you do with it." "Real life, however, has a disconcerting tendency of intruding into even the most public of professions - and it is here, in that peculiar war zone between single motherhood and a deadline-driven career, that Now This fully takes flight. In a style best described as Erma noir, Muller tells about being accused of a poor attitude because she does the 5:00 p.m. radio newscast in her coat, because otherwise she can't get out the door at 5:05, and can't catch the train at 5:25, and can't make dinner for the kids, and her whole belief system would collapse; about raising two daughters and confronting the issues of drinking, dating, and sex (and that's just her, never mind the daughters); about cellulite and custody battles and the everyday traumas of the American woman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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