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on Foot Traffic
That is so true... that is, "that every group thinks they are a victimized minority." No one wants to give an inch.
I lived and drove into Washington, D.C. for many years during rush hour. We have the famous Beltway that turns into a parking lot 3 hours in the morning, and 3 hours every evening. My father, who used to decry the "old man wearing a hat" in front of him when I was a child, now would get in the far left lane, and drive at 50mph, just to slow down the bastards, who were "out to kill him."
We need to treasure life itself. Trust me, when you are standing there waiting for the emergency vehicles to arrive, EVERYONE involved is wishing they had behaved differently.
posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Our Online Community
Your question, as I read it, is how can TOL increase it's market share? Personally, I don't think it is links on your web page, that will get you results you want. I believe the conversations onair need to improve in depth and quality.
We all know people in our lives who, when they tell a story, everyone is quiet and listens. We all know people, who with just a few questions, can get us to open up to them. The same holds true for good radio interviewers. There is a magic to it... an art to it... some people are "naturals."
posted 1 year, 8 months ago
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on What's in a Name
I appreciate what Tom D. Ford has said above. That is, how voices on radio sound is very important, and they can be very distracting if not focused and calm. I have often wondered if Emily and the producers of TOL ever listen to how the show sounds.
Good luck Dave!
posted 1 year, 9 months ago
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on Lewis & Clark's New President
How about when Emily says, I didn't read your book, but I Googled it and found a review by someone who has read it, and he said that you were wrong when you said, what do you say about THAT?... Is that ambush journalism?
Or they ask Glassner about food culture, and cut to what restaurants do you like in Portland? He says welll I dont want to get into any trouble here, but I will name a few... and he does. Dave's follow up... "Why did my question make you anxious?"
Talk show hosts usually like people, and they want to know more about them. They are usually interested in drawing out their guests special ideas. Mr. Glassner breezed through this interview, and his intelligence radiated through... in spite of the amaturish presenters, whose interviews always seem to tell us more about who they are, than their guests.
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on Rx: Medicare Reimbursement
I have Medicare and Medicare Advantage. It is a horror. The amount of paper I am sent yearly is hilarious. You would have to be a lawyer to make sense of it.
Our medical system is BROKEN. For every doctor there are a five other pill-counting, paper-pushers, who are making a living off what that doctor does. Health insurers add NOTHING to health care or health care delivery, and just bring a blizzard of paper work for every illness, every doctor visit. We must cut them out of the health care pie completely.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Sherman Alexie
Emily Harris... Please stop Googleing guests, and then confronting them with comments or discusions that you find online. It is transparent to listners. Read the books, read criticism. Don't read comments you find at Amazon or Powells Books website! Don't look for controversy, don't try to make them wrong, like you did in the last question when you say,"... you were a zero on the reservation, then why did you later list all your favorite things?"
The last hour felt like you spent you were looking for something wrong in Sherman's writing. Some hypocrisy that you uncovered last night on Google that will bring your guest's house of cards down.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Rx: Responding to Obama
Health insurance is analogous to auto repairs though... if a brake job cost $3,000 dollars we would all have to have some kind of automobile repair insurance.
Big Pharma and the health insurance industry are making vast fortunes off of easily cured or managed illnesses.
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Taxing Gas
I wouldn't drive a block to save five cents a gallon. I don't think people pay attention like the blowhards do.
Gas taxes are fair.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Rx: Role of Employers
Healthcare ought to be paid for by the government. No bills, no paper. Doctors are all salaried. No windfalls for anyone.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on The State of Black Oregon
"And it (the report) makes police recommendations in the areas of education, economic development, housing, health and criminal justice among others."
This sentence above from TOL's promotion makes about as much sense as the torturous "discussion" on Think Out Loud. I used to think that the staff never listens to their show. Now I see that the staff doesn't read their promos for the show either.
This report the the Urban League has produced is an amazing piece of work. Too bad the people who could promote it couldn't find the time to read it.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Zine Culture
How can you do show about something so, "insider" as zines, and yet know nothing about them? It sounded on the radio as if neither of you had ever read a zine? The whole show was like doing a show about painting, but never discussing a painting or a great painter. Why do you paint? Do you enjoy painting? What do you like to paint about?
What Im saying is that neither of you knew nothing about what you were discussing (except what you read on Wikipedia). No experience at all, and yet you spend an hour talking about zines as if you cared about them... but what are they again?
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Michael & Matthew Dickman
I was wrong.
This was a terrific radio show! Spontaneous, lively, wordy. Congratulations.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Michael & Matthew Dickman
Don't get your hopes up for an interesting program. Emily's introductory smug, knows-it-all paragraph is where the show will go. You just have to love Emily's own poetic style with an url link on the word "disdain."
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