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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Open Letter to WUNC
  • Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:55:54 -0500

That's just because you're overly sensitive, Bo, and that's what we love about you. All the guy said was that it makes him physically uncomfortable to listen to her. Whether or not she's *actually* going to keel over or not is kind of secondary to the main question of what, exactly, the criteria are for one to have a nationally-syndicated radio talk show.

I myself kind of enjoy the bizarre phenomenon of hearing someone with a moderate speech impairment doing a live radio talk show. I do have to wonder whether WAMU would have hired her at all if she'd had the dysphonia at the time, rather than coming down with it later, and what kind of heated discussions may or may not have occurred behind closed doors when she expressed her desire to keep on talkin' after her diagnosis. "Public" radio being rather corporatist & focus-grouped & ratings/power-obsessed & alla that.

Then again, I suspect her ratings had a sympathy bounce, so maybe the public radio execs were overcome with glee.

I myself am currently fingers-crossing that WUNC doesn't permanently stick Dick Gordon in at 1:00 p.m. because I'm kinda fond of "Day To Day," or rather I guess I should say I just can't get enough Alex Chadwick, even though he's spending less time in hip-waders in South American swamps nowadays as a result.

Plus Dahlia Lithwick!

Ross

p.s. RE: the original topic of this discussion -- relying on NPR for pop music coverage seems kinda futile. Shouldn't we be encouraging them to spend *less* time flailing after the pop demographic & more time covering things like, you know, news & politics & science & stuff? The universe is awash, up to its follicles, even, in pop-music coverage already.

Bo Williams wrote:
Man, I sure would feel like a shitheel after this.

On 3/6/06, kevin maxwell farmer <fakirmevern-amch AT yahoo.com> wrote:


dookie wrote:
great plan! *anything* to lose diane rehm. it really makes my
physically
uncomfortable to listen to her...i'm afraid she's gonna keel over dead
any
second.

she isn't going to die anytime soon; she has a neurological disorder
called spasmodic dysphonia:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101067




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