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Snarkier-than-thou Gawker focused its lazy weekend eye on our very own Public Radio Talent Quest, kind of dissing it and loving it at the same time. My guess is they were going in for a short dig and then, like the rest of us, got drawn into the remarkably evolving and compelling world of this contest. Listening to random entries back-to-back is addictive enough, and now the message boards and comments are taking on a life of their own. People are even answering each other’s help requests, much to the relief of our overstretched staff here at PRX central.

Read the full Gawker post here.

On the whole, it seems that kids (and olds) have learned about as much about NPR house style from the SNL parodies as they have from the actual programming. Let’s see… anemic tonal detachment? Check! Coffee house world music? Check! Subordinate clauses, apposition, and em-dashes? Ballin’! Film professor Jeff Midents crams fifteen clarifying phrases/clauses into his two-minute riff on green-eyed artist Nawi Oleen which averages out for one every ten seconds, enough to give the boy Robert Siegel a run for his money.