Today I sent the following letter to
KCPW:
With the recent changes by NPR, the turn over, and the changes they've made - all of that translates into dropping them being less of a problem. May I suggest further that you consider dropping "To The Best of Our Knowledge." When I review their schedule at
http://www.ttbook.org/shows-by-year...if you dig a little deeper you'll find that they select for and push for interviewing what are essentially "Templeton chumps" who portray the real world as essentially ineffable, so as to leave room for Templeton's God (the god of a rich man with enough money to get a camel's nose under the secular tent of "public radio" and science education). More info:
http://goo.gl/DEpuXTThe key agenda of "To The Best of Our Knowledge" is to blow smoke, softly, smoothly, so that the naive secular advocate doesn't know what's happening. The woo passes slowly over the nose of the science advocate, leading him slowly to Gould's non-overlapping magisteria and rich man Templeton's God.
Oh, and KUER already has this one, and they love the show. So why duplicate, right?
KCPW was first on MANY fronts, and KUER is the moocher. But they've been a successful moocher and copycat. Show after show, year after year. "Just copy KCPW" is what they've done. Is there some way you can block all their staff from listening to KCPW? Seriously.
A for having "Q" front and center, and so prominent, there's problems with that also: http://goo.gl/Jd3DOm
Jian has his problems:
http://zorgreport.blogspot.com/2011/09/ever-incredibly-depressing-jian.htmlMaybe you can find better stuff out there than Jian.
So, the suggestions are, drop "To The Best of Our Knowledge" and lessen your reliance on
Jian's Q. And somehow block KUER from copying your stuff moving forward.
