News Segments
The show features a number of recurring news segments, each referred to by Shearer as "a copyrighted feature of this broadcast". Currently many episodes include the following:
- Apologies of the Week (public apologies reported in the news)
- News From Outside the Bubble (News stories from international sources, usually the UK.)
- News of the Warm (Shearer reads news on Global warming)
- The Trades (Shearer reads items from trade magazines)
Other news features that recur less often on the program include:
- Burying the Lede (News stories with alarming tidbits buried down in the story)
- Clean, Safe, Too Cheap to Meter (News of safety issues in the nuclear power industry).
- F is for FEMA (News stories concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - usually showcasing some aspect of incompetence - particularly focusing on the Hurricane Katrina aftermath)
- Found Object Department (Shearer plays audio from network feeds that was not intended to air)
- Let's Get Scared (Shearer reads news stories with frightening implications).
- Los Angeles Dog Trainer Corrections (Shearer reads the extensive and often unusual LA Times errata.)
- News from the Digital Wonderland (News items, usually negative, concerning the switch-over from analog to digital transmission systems)
- News of the Godly (News items relating to religion and evangelism)
- News of Inspectors General (News reports of the findings of U.S. Government Inspectors General)
- Tales of Airport Security (sent in by listeners)
- News of the Olympic Movement (news about Olympic snafus)
- News of News Corp. (Shearer updates the latest stories about the News Corporation scandal),
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- On the October 16, 2011 episode, Shearer renamed the segment News of Nice Corp. ". . . because its not anymore misleading than . . ."
- The Year in Rebuke (The last one or two shows of each year feature repeats of key news-related items, songs and sketches from that year).
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Famous quotes containing the words news and/or segments:
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—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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—John Ruskin (1819–1900)