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:
“The newspapers, especially those in the East, are amazingly superficial and ... a large number of news gatherers are either cynics at heart or are following the orders and the policies of the owners of their papers.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)