{"id":2621,"date":"2005-02-03T16:09:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/03\/2621.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:48:05","slug":"with-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/03\/with-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"with good reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since my local NPR station (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whro.org\/radio\">WHRV<\/a>) has changed its lineup, I now have the opportunity to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withgoodreasonradio.org\/\">With Good Reason<\/a>, a weekly interview show under the auspices of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiafoundation.org\/\">The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities<\/a>. This is a surprisingly good, surprisingly local interview show; I&#8217;ve heard several episodes and have been impressed. I&#8217;ve enjoyed it more than the national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/radio\">What's the Word?<\/a>, put out by the Modern Language Association, and far more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/counterspin\/index.html\">Counterspin<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioneers.org\/programs\/radio\/index.php\">The Bioneers<\/a>. I more or less enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyspace.org\/genres\/shorts_static.php?id=31\">Selected Shorts<\/a>, although as my listening time does not exactly coincide with its airtime, I often find it more frustrating than enjoyable. I have heard one episode, or most of one episode, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/ppo\/currentprograms\/storylines\/storylinesnewengland.htm\">StoryLines New England<\/a>, which was an unexpected pleasure for this erstwhile New Englander. Also hearkening back to my Boston days is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeforum.org\/\">Cambridge Forum<\/a>, which is a magnificent combination of parochialism and national scope, getting Hub Man exactly right (or rather, the Cantabridgian version of Hub Man, whose headline would read &#8220;World Ends, Hub Man Thoughtful&#8221;.\n<p>My point, if you haven&#8217;t picked up on it yet, is that there really isn&#8217;t any reason for a good public radio news station to enslave itself to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">NPR<\/a>, to repeat an hour of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshair.com\/\">Fresh Air<\/a> or (Lord forbid) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconnection.org\/\">The Connection<\/a>. I&#8217;ve no substantial beef with NPR, although they seem to be a bit sleepy compared to <a>PRI<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpublicmedia.org\/programs.php\">American Public Media<\/a> appears to have stolen the annoying <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/\">Marketplace<\/a> and broadcasts the superlative <a href=\"http:\/\/splendidtable.publicradio.org\/\">Splendid Table<\/a>. No, it&#8217;s just that more and more, what we ask a public radio station to do is to sift through the available stuff and pick out a good variety of the good stuff. If your local one doesn&#8217;t do as good a job as you like, perhaps you should give them a nudge (and some money), and point out that it won&#8217;t be too long before you can just load up a day&#8217;s worth of shows to your iPod before heading out in the morning, and do without the local station entirely. And nobody wants that.\n\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my local NPR station (WHRV) has changed its lineup, I now have the opportunity to listen to With Good Reason, a weekly interview show under the auspices of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 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