Friday, September 17, 2010

Web Sickness (NPR)

Producer/Reporter: Bob Garfield

Length: 3:38

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/13/03

Description

Radio host Bob Garfield interviews Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, about how Cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease. Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses.

This feature is different from the WVR (World Vision Report) in the sense that this is a podcast from a talk show and the other is a narrative audio clip. Bearing this in mind, there was no reason of having nat sounds since it’s known to be recorded at a station.

Again, the host was very clear including his guest however there was a small buzzing/fuzzing sound that affected the audio clip’s quality making it very irritating, thus less effective than it could’ve been.

Despite this, I chose this audio clip for a simple reason, it was very interesting. Other than the fact that I was oblivious to the fact that such a term and condition existed, I inevitably find myself among those who practice Cyberchondria.

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