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To: Ron who wrote (332938)	3/31/2017 12:05:01 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541858

I remember discovering "All Things Considered" in the seventies... Driving my FIAT 124... It was such thoughtful, educational and entertaining programming. The audio-only imagery in my head was incredible... blew my mind at times. As Bay Area "FM underground" radio morphed into corporate programmed boolshit I found my radio tuned to NPR a lot. My neo-marxist lefty friends & my rightwing family/friends couldn't stand NPR... (But I must admit, regular season baseball is #1 priority on my radio. But not as good as being there at the stadium, or playing the game.) After listening to mostly NPR over the years, when I turn on regular commercial radio stations theyare exceedingly annoying.

To: Ron who wrote (332938)	3/31/2017 2:11:49 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541858

This is from the wiki article on Wertheimer: After graduation, Wertheimer worked for the BBC and WCBS. She was reportedly told by an executive at NBC that she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter. [3] Wertheimer began her career with NPR as the first director of news magazine All Things Considered, hosted by Robert Conley, from its debut on 3 May 1971. She was appointed political correspondent by 1974, and in 1976 became the first woman to anchor NPR's coverage of a presidential nomination convention and of an election night. [4] She continued in her role as a political correspondent through 1989, at which point she became a host of All Things Considered, a role in which she would continue for thirteen years. With Wertheimer as host the program's audience grew to record levels, from six million listeners in 1989 to nearly 10 million listeners by 2001, making it one of the top five shows in U.S. radio. [4] In 2002, she left that role and became NPR's first senior national correspondent. [5] As of 2008, Wertheimer has anchored ten presidential nomination conventions and twelve election nights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Wertheimer I didn't realize just how popular NPR is (although pretty much everyone I know listens to ATC and many listen to Morning Edition and a few other NPR shows as well). Ten million is a lot of listeners!