[Today’s run: nothing]
Had a nice relaxing day today. Church this morning; nice lunch, a bit of radio operating (Algeria on 20 meters with 5 watts!)
This year we gave a bit of money at the public radio beg-a-thon. The funny thing is that since doing that, we have not been listening to MPB (Mississippi Public Broadcasting) as much as we had been before.
Although I get a bit tired of the public radio political bias, I don’t find it completely irksome. I’ve had to write off Prairie Home Companion as Mr. Keillor has gotten more political (and nasty) as the years have gone by. We sometimes hear What a’ ya’ Know on Sunday after church. That guy is in Wisconsin and the recent politics there sometimes intrude, but generally he does ok. I like This American Life, but I don’t know if it plays on MPB. Not at any time that I’m usually listening.
We regularly get a bit of the Morning Edition, and the 9am local programming segment during the week, and maybe some All Things Considered.
I can completely do without Here and Now, On Point, To the Point, and Tell Me More. They are all pretty much the same thing and rarely worth the effort.
I like Car Talk, but I can only listen to it when my wife is not around. She easily over-yuks. And we both think Krista Tippet has some serious problems. (She had a show about faith, then declared as an atheist. Now her show is called “On Being” and we are afraid she may spontaneously combust. [faith–>no faith, being–>no being]. Maybe she can have a show called “poor” then become rich and retire.)
And they run way to much BBC News (but I know they do that because it is inexpensive and they don’t have an overabundance of money.)
I’d say we were spoiled by the KUNC station in Colorado. MPB is about half as useful to us.
The local programming segment though is very good. They should do more of that.