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Ira Glass, Televangelist
12 April 2007
The New Yorker's TV critic, Nancy Franklin, thinks NPR's "This American Life" annoys her because host Ira Glass sticks to structure of a sermon -- anecdote, declaration of meaning. But it goes down smoother on TV, she writes, because "we've all become used to not giving TV our full attention to." Which raises an interesting question about televangelists -- did they succeed because their fans found it easier to ignore them?

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