Completely Conspicuous Episode 75: Future Shock

Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Eric Convey about the decline of newspapers.

Topics:

- New media in news gathering 

- The future of journalism

- Tales of old reporters

- Pinhead of the Week

Music:

- The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy (live) 

- The Pink Mountaintops - Vampire

- The Vaselines - Son of a Gun 

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The Hold Steady song is on the new live album A Positive Rage on Vagrant Records. Find out more at http://theholdsteady.net/ and visit http://www.spinner.com/2009/04/02/the-hold-steady-chips-ahoy-live-free-mp3-of-the-day to download the song. .

The Pink Mountaintops song is on the new album Outside Love on Jagjaguwar Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/pinkmountaintops and download the song at http://www.jagjaguwar.com.

The Vaselines song is on the new collection Enter the Vaselines on Sub Pop Records. Find out more and download the song at http://www.subpop.com/artists/the_vaselines.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull.

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