Eric Kisch wrote: >I won't defend NPR on this because I expected more. With TV news, I don't >expect anything. > >A response from the network to my email showed that the Menuhin segment >was under three minutes, the Oscar film scores segment was over 15 minutes! >As a measure of relative importance of the items, this sucks. I also get very impatient with NPR devoting an enormous amount of attention on many programs to what I consider pop junk music, but then I have to remind myself that, even among the erudite (relatively speaking) NPR audience, people with my musical tastes are a distinct minority. And after all, every broadcast medium, even public ones, caters to the majority of its own clientele. On the other hand, I was rather startled, in listening to "[Sm]all Things Considered" tonight, that almost every snippet of between-story music was CM. Obviously, this was a deliberate choice by whoever makes these selections, and it made this normally very boring program almost pleasant. Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]