From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

We've been sitting in these chairs about six months now, and we can't help but think about

how we've been doing.

In a few minutes, partly just to show off and partly because we need a

break, we're going to bring you a couple of the pieces in interviews we've already run, pieces

that we believe offer a pretty good illustration of what we had in mind when we reinvented

on the media.

But first we thought we'd hear from you. David Heinz wrote, I've only recently discovered

your show. I find

the rare breath of truth about commercial media to be exhilarating. Without shows like yours, the corporate

coup d'etat would be complete and completely invisible. I'll continue to be a habitual listener.

And this general comment from Frank Haber, I make it a point to listen to your show as often as possible.

The show is well produced, always topical, and mostly on target.

You dig the dirt while somehow staying on the repritorial side of that magic line.

Well, that's nice.

But then he continues, when you get too internecine or run out of things newsworthy, you acquire certain national inquirer traits.

We can't conclude this segment of listener criticism without hearing from Ronald D. Giles of Glenmore, Pennsylvania, who writes,

Here are the words I would apply to this program.

Downer. Negative. Petulant. to this program. Downer.

Negative.

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