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It is possible, in this day and age, to stay in touch 24 hours a day if you so choose. Or, if you'd care to look at it another way, cell phones and laptops and Blackberrys have made it almost impossible to disconnect. Try as we might, it is just hard to ignore all those e-mails and text messages and phone calls. So it's no wonder a lot of us are overwhelmed. But Sally Herships may have found an answer.
Broadcast History
Marketplace, American Public Media 11/17/2009
Transcript
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INTRO
Ever feel overwhelmed by all the emails in your in-box? Cell phone messages? Texts? But what are you supposed to do? Disconnect? Well, some people are doing just that. Sally Herships has more on slow media.
SALLY HERSHIPS: Every night my boyfriend brings his iPhone to bed. And his Blackberry. Did I mention the laptop?
HERSHIPS: It's 5:45, and my boyfriend's phone just rang.
BOYFRIEND: It was somebody from work.
HERSHIPS: And you answered it?
BOYFRIEND: I did.
This, to put it mildly, doesn't make me happy. I'm trying not to take it personally. My boyfriend is a journalist and a news junkie. And it's not like he needs an excuse to stay wired all the time. Connected is the new normal.
That drives Jenny Rauch nuts. Rauch is a journalism professor in New York, and she's what you might call old school.
JENNY RAUCH: I've tried telling my friends, I don't text. I don't have a tex...
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Slow Media 4:11 Version
INTRO
Ever feel overwhelmed by all the emails in your in-box? Cell phone messages? Texts? But what are you supposed to do? Disconnect? Well, some people are doing just that. Sally Herships has more on slow media.
HERSHIPS 1
Every night my boyfriend brings his iphone to bed. And his blackberry. Did I mention the laptop?
ACT HERSHIPS 1 (:09)
S: It’s 5:45 and my boyfriend's phone just rang.
A: It was somebody from work.
S: And you answered it?
A: I did.
HERSHIPS 2
This, to put it mildly, doesn't make me happy. But I'm trying not to take it personally. My boyfriend is, like me, a journalist - he needs to stay on top of the news. And it's not just him - nowadays lots of people are feeling overwhelmed by work and media. Like Nick Jones. He lives in North Carolina and i s a computer programmer and he's got two monitors on his desk. But he doesn't just write code.
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INTRO: OUTRO:They're both blogging about their new slow media diets. Reporter Sally Herships also tried a media diet of her own. You can read find links to all of their websites on ours:
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