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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
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"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
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