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Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:00 AM

You don't know Jack?

Jack radio is cheap and soulless and all about random sex; it's also the new love of my life. Who needs Howard Stern?
By Mary Elizabeth Williams

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006 09:24 PM

    The thing that gets me...

    Though I refuse on principle to listen to "Jack," because the whole idea of computer-controlled media scares me, the thing that really gets me about Jack is the "We're Jack" part. And the billboards in my city that say "Jack FM: Playing What We Want." This is a computer program, right? So, when I read "Playing what we want," I'm thinking, 'What? Is this computer program sentient?' And, if so, how can it "want"? If it has musical preferences, what other preferences does it have? Isn't that scary? I feel so much closer to August 29, 1997....

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