At least three times in the past week, I’ve turned the car radio to NPR and been stuck listening to talk about The Da Vinci Code. I don’t get it. It’s a bad movie based on a worse book. What’s to talk about?
Evidently a lot of people think the book is an important expose of Church teachings. I don’t know if these people didn’t notice that it was in the Fiction section, or what, but just because ignorance is widespread doesn’t seem to me to be a reason for NPR to waste airtime on it. Perhaps they’ve decided to try appealing to the masses rather than the elites? If so I’ll start listening to the classical station.