In fact, I'm slowly reading Anthony Beevor on all this, and he tells me that the biggest problem the Poles had was lack of radios, leaving them unable to coordinate their actions.
Twice this week the radio left me in tears.
Maybe the same people who could have imagined that there would be no real rock radio left, and no real music-video channel, and no real record stores to set up displays of upcoming music.
The action, on these occasions, the event this crowd has paid to see, has a tendency to feel like a radio left switched on somewhere in the corner of a room.
What about the spat on the radio left over whether the killing of bin Laden was unlawful (David Sirota suggests so; Ed Schultz adamantly disagrees)?
"What's the sound of eyes rolling, the tiny click click of thumbs on smart phones, slutty Rihanna whining from a bedroom radio left on?
"I was like, 'Mom — I'm on Australian radio, leave me alone!,' and she didn't even care".
Considering the exponentially greater options of the Internet, it might be only a matter of time before Web radio leaves traditional radio in its wake.
But an entourage of bodyguards and chauffeurs isn't a perk of playing love songs or making happy talk on the radio, leaving Ms. Mills exposed and vulnerable.
Yet many live events in Vancouver are still narrated as if for radio, leaving it to hyped-up commentators to explain the action verbally, and, as they become overexcited, often incomprehensibly.
