Some kinds of humor work better than others. It’s likely this tack was thought to be tongue-in-cheek. We can be pretty sure it would be no boost to the publishing industry to get its consumers mad at each other. Of course, we all know how helpful divisiveness is in the world today. The Audies appeared to be unmasking animosity between eyes-people and ears-people, as if we’re all dissing each other about how we consume books. In an opening rap accompanied by some agile graphics, the audience also heard, “And we’ll flip the bird to the haters, folks who think that books need paper.” Or, as everyone under the age of 30 now calls them, books.” Penn, for example, proposed a generational wedge in his open, saying, “The Audies are our annual celebration of creativity in the field of audiobooks. Even if this was meant as good-natured fun, it may not have succeeded as hoped. Curiously, at times this cleanly produced programming seemed to be trying to start a fight between fans of audio and those of other reading media.
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