[lbo-talk] WBAI's quackery is annoying as all gittout

[shag]

I've been hearing you complain about the programming, but never really
knew what you meant. I finally bought a pair of headphones to listen at
work. In the past, I always tuned into local community radio, WMNF, which
is a great station. But at work, I decided to list to WBAI. I've given
this 7 shots. I'm headed back to WMNF.

My lord. Every time I tune in to WBAI, it's some quack. Now, it's
something about Queen someone and her personal story of transformation,
creative, artistic processes and for christ sake, it's like some hipster
version of a Helen Steiner Rice card. Oh. Goodie. She's talking about
connecting to her body at age 7 and an awakening at 17. Christ. Joe Noonan
told me this, too, about all the healing quackery and now the spiritual
healing folderol. How irritating.

I tune in to the station and stations like WMNF to get political talk,
news, opinion, interviews with authors, politicians, etc. Decidedly not 
wanting to listen to a woman telling me about mucous coming out of all her
orifices as a result of body/mind healing and then a miraculous recovery.
Once in a while -- like a couple of dedicated shows. But every damn time,
it's some quack or some spiritual stuff.

Are people in NYC obsessed with their health and dying or something?

Bleh.

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