Michael Vuolo
Former OTM producer Mike Vuolo was reared in the bucolic wilds of New Jersey, on a neighborhood block populated entirely with Italians and Jews - including his own childhood home, which contained both. It was ...
The First Ever On the Media acrostic!
Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 10:30 AM
Calling all puzzlers! Think you know stuff? Like filling in blank squares with letters of the alphabet? Me too. And so to celebrate the redesign of On the Media's website, please enjoy this first ever OTM acrostic. Directions are simple (but the puzzle is hard!): 1. Click on the link to download the pdf. 2. Print. 3. Solve to reveal a media-themed quotation. And don’t forget to give us feedback. Click on the “Contact Us” link in the top right corner of our site and let us know if you enjoyed the puzzle and would like it to be a regular feature.
You can download the PDF by clicking the link HERE
Check back next week when we’ll post the solution. Good luck!
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Comments [7]
This was great. I'm not a great or prolific puzzler, but this was a great challenge.
How fitting to spend all morning being swept aware on internet sidebars while seeking the answers to this puzzler. I learned so much: such as the extent of Mormon politician campaign contributions from alcohol and tobacco companies, the multitudinous readings of "the ghost" in Hamlet, boat design history, and the plethora of social networking tools being used. UGH....time to withdrawal back away from the computer...okay, maybe to the bookstore to buy Gleick's work.
Fun. I happen to be reading Gleick's book at the moment! More please.
This was devlish! I can't, without spoilers, specifically compliment it, but it was tricky. I'm going to send it my hyper-intellectual friend whose parents used to flirt with each other by creating acrostics.
Keep 'em coming.
Dear Brook,and company, You have an intelligent and most necessary program and listening to it on the radio is, to my mind, a gift. The Media is too pervasive an institution to be left unscrutinized. HOWEVER...please do something about your website. I am a woman of a certain (75) age and i am afflicted with macular degenerarion, This is causing my reading ability to be almost gone. I can, however, read things that are dark or contrasted and then enlarged. Your web designers have become part of the new breed where black/white contrast is not accepted and the wooosy colors are used instesd. Please consider my comments and take them to heart. Ophthamologists say that the #1 complaint they here from patients is..."I can't see" the web sites. I will keep listening but follow-up at your site is proving a formidable task.
... or use the Java app like the one they use for acrostics at NYT and WSJ.
Thanks. I really enjoyed the puzzle. It would be good if you could upload a pdf that we could fill in on the computer instead of printing it out (saves paper) and filling in by hand. Looking forward to the next one.
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