The Host with the most (footnotes)

DFW on political talk radio

The Atlantic’s April cover story is a 1,286,368 word (we’re estimating) piece by David Foster Wallace on political talk radio, replete with David Foster Wallace Footnotes™.1 If nothing else, it’ll feed the Clear Channel conspiracy theorists. A sample passage:

Clear Channel Communications Inc. now owns KFI AM-640, plus two other AM stations and five FMs in the Los Angeles market. It also owns Premiere Radio Networks. It also owns the Airwatch subscription news/traffic service. And it designs and manufactures Prophet, KFI’s operating system, which is state-of-the-art and much too expensive for most independent stations.

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