"NPR brings fresh air into my mind, and not just with Terry Gross’s show. The hosts seem calm and civilized. Their questions are good ones. You never catch them being clever for the sake of being clever. It’s not happy talk. It’s in good taste. NPR obviously makes a lot of effort to bring in guests that are appropriate to the subject; a lot of pre-production goes on. There’s no catering to prejudice. No agenda. There are radio essays from around the world. Local sounds and voices, sometimes with a translation. Tastes of Africa or Asia. Foods and rituals, emergencies and heartbreak, music and whimsy. A taste of BBC news. Some programming from Canada. Hour after hour, day after day, its standard of quality is daunting."
(via banalitycheck)
