I was working a really dull electronic assembly job in '83, so I brought my Walkman to work and my little headphones and listed to the (essentially) audiobook of 1984 read on NPR radio. So ironic that NPR ended up interpreting it as an instruction manual... That was back in the days before NPR got the majority of its funding from NGOs - it was much more "listener-funded" back in the day.
I was working a really dull electronic assembly job in '83, so I brought my Walkman to work and my little headphones and listed to the (essentially) audiobook of 1984 read on NPR radio. So ironic that NPR ended up interpreting it as an instruction manual... That was back in the days before NPR got the majority of its funding from NGOs - it was much more "listener-funded" back in the day.
I was working a really dull electronic assembly job in '83, so I brought my Walkman to work and my little headphones and listed to the (essentially) audiobook of 1984 read on NPR radio. So ironic that NPR ended up interpreting it as an instruction manual... That was back in the days before NPR got the majority of its funding from NGOs - it was much more "listener-funded" back in the day.
And in support of that last comment, I offer the following article:
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust