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WBUR drops its only news show devoted specifically to Boston
By adamg on Fri, 12/13/2024 - 10:16am
WBUR self reports on the end of Radio Boston after 17 years on the air.
The move comes just months after its host, Tiziana Dearing, was named anchor of WBUR’s Morning Edition show, where she continues to interview major newsmakers on a regular basis, including Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu.
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WBUR's Radio Boston could never compete with Boston Public Radio
Jim and Margery have this time slot and longer locked up for loyal Boston listeners. I think that this is not a bad decision at all from WBUR. Now if we could only get Meghna to talk less....
Talk less?
People always have their beefs with the On Point host. I feel dumb for thinking they always do a fine job with their host selection.
Meghna goes on and on and on.
Meghna goes on and on and on. I have complained to them about this already. She takes up all the air from her guests lest the narrative slip from the tight editorial control.
She has these experts on and Meghna-splains their subject matter for us. Aarrgghh! I want to hear it from the expert.
Either they’re keeping the reins on the narrative lest an unapproved idea makes it on air and/or she (and focus groups) love her own voice so much, which is problematic from a journalistic and public radio standpoint.
We must not let the free public airwaves die. Commercial podcasts and streaming has its place, but there must be a place on the dial for fusty (real) journalism and Socratic debate.
What's Public Radio?
That's what old people listen to in the car..... My Kids
But even us Gen Xers can figure out streaming the phone to the car radio via Bluetooth, and if no,t we can ask the kids......lol
That’s a shame. I was
That’s a shame. I was listening to Radio Boston yesterday and it was basically an infomercial for a podcast and the motif was the refrain “full disclosure” for their closeness to Harvard. If they wanted to actually talk about the Gay scandal they could have had better guests on, but the point was to promote a podcast.
Too much is public radio these days a platform for promoting canted, shabby, dubious podcasts, and elevating selected voices and the incestuous “darlings” of the self-selecting and insulated local scene.
Also, we deserve much better than the watered-down Jim and Margery offering. If Jim could stop talking about himself… These two hosts must have a wealth of information about Boston, the Bay State and beyond, yet they are so frustratingly editorially constrained. They often have interesting and informative guests, but their local celebrity regulars they elevate are a bore. And, they spend way too much time on utter inanities. It’s great that they put on local pols regularly, but they almost seem beholden to them, promoters of them.
Give us a quality call-in like Talk of the Nation every day. I don’t tune in to listen to the echo chamber and have my ego stroked and my views validated. I want my views to he challenged.