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First of all, "Market Place" is syndicated by American Public Radio, not NPR -- a slightly different, more confederated, network of nonprofit stations. Second, the particular program called "Market Place" offers superficial coverage at best -- and it doesn't often attain even that lowly standard. One could hardly expect anything else, given only 30 minutes for the program and the producers' apparent penchant for stuffing half the allotted time with chatty fluff and boring off-the-mark essays by deservedly obscure writers, teenagers, and other people on the margins of life. Third, David Johnson is, indeed, an idiot. He is also crude, very nearly illiterate, and insufferably puffed up with self-importance. Nothing qualifies him to be a market commentator -- not credentials, not performance record, and certainly not genius. The only thing I can think of to explain his continue presence on the radio is he must be connected by kinship or childhood friendship to somebody at Market Place. |
