NPR positives:
- No annoying ads where two people talk to each other with such insipid tones I am filled with a wish to perforate them with a Barrett .50 sniper rifle
- Longer, more informative news stories than the 30 second "news" coverage on the local AM news powerhouse
- Jazz interstitials!
- Click and Clack
- Fresh Air
- Michael Feldman
- touches of Canada in As it Happens
- Diane Rhiem
- Garrison
- April Baer

Negatives
- Ideastream (their local motto). This is a terrible metaphor. The ideas flow, get polluted, and go into the ocean?
- "Making Change - Reinventing our economy". These are short Weatherhead School of Management sponsored spots that seem like useless factoids left over that could be used to fill empty space in newspapers - but not that good.
- Michael Feldman
- when Bob Edwards has the sotto voce thing going on, you can only hear every 5th word, unless you crank the audio. Then when a normal person starts to speak, there go the eardrums
- Having an intro to a longer radio piece start with the sound of
waves crashing
people unwrapping plastic
eating
fish squirming (I swear I heard this)

Is this supposed to be a radio version of name that tune? Just tell us where you are! If I wanted to listen to Yemenis at the market munching on food, I'd go there.