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- From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Lee Michael Demsey: anniversary
- Message-ID: <20690@muffin.cme.nist.gov>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:34:48 GMT
- References: <20JAN199309215571@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> <29985@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <des.78@helix.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- In article <des.78@helix.nih.gov> des@helix.nih.gov (David E. Scheim) writes:
- >In article <29985@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mulvihil@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Mulvihill) writes:
- >
- >>What does WAMU decide it needs more of? Talk radio. I agree
- >>that Rheim needs a lesson in talk show manners.
- >
- >Because WAMU made a stupid decision to drop LMD, don't blame it on Diane
- >Rehm, please! Her show has always been in the morning time slot, and was
- >not effected by the decision. I have always found her as intelligent and
- >objective as talk show hosts come. -- David Scheim
-
- I disagree. She is adequate, but far from superlative. Surely in all
- DC there are much better hosts then Rehm?
-
- My specific complaints are:
-
- 1) Her logic is inconsistent. When a listener takes a side she likes,
- she will not point out the flaws in the logic. On sides she doesn't
- like, she will point out flaws. If she can't think of any, she'll
- hang up on them. She doesn't always do this, but she does it enough.
- It's impossible to call her objective.
-
- 2) She seems particularly insensitive to extreme views - while they
- may not work they are often worth analysis. She rejects many things
- too quickly - without explaining why.
-
- 2) Her voice is irritating. It sounds unnatural - very forced. It
- also ranges in volume constantly. In my car I try to balance the
- volume so that it is high enough to be heard over the traffic but low
- enough so that it doesn't hurt. I have to constantly twiddle with the
- volume as the dialogue switches between her and her callers. Perhaps
- the station engineers could fix this, but I never have this problem
- with their other hosts (this included Cuthbert, Fisk and all the guest
- hosts in between).
-
- Don Libes libes@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes
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