Because the hosts are not shrill, they are very well informed, curious, balanced to the point of being polite, respectful and know how to facilitate a discussion without being rude. And the topics they pick to discuss are ecletic - from the merits of building a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge to politics, to the art of writing novels and the short story, the human genome project and the level of the water table in California. The hosts are very well informed and explore different dimensions of an issue in a very even keeled manner.
I wish the other channels both on radio and TV were like that. CNN, MSNBC, Fox - all of the channels are shrill, noisy and annoying - Wolf Blitzer runs the "Situation Room" on CNN - Wolf is a good host but to call the discussions he has the "Situation Room" is frankly hyperbole of the extreme and annoying at times. And Fox News is rabid. I have stopped watching it. And the number of ads between progams is such a pain. We have stopped watching most TV these days.
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