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<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>Well, let's not spend too much time bashing <SPAN class=correction id="">TAL</SPAN>. I agree, there's a <SPAN class=correction id="">hipper-than-thou</SPAN> condescending <SPAN class=correction id="">vibe</SPAN> that comes thru from some of the contributors, but there is also some good stuff, even occasionally some REAL GOOD stuff like the audio journal of the kid from Afghanistan. </div>
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<div>My own personal bias is that I really dislike any of the segments actually narrated or told by Mr. Glass, his idea of what might be interesting to the world at large shows more self fascination than I can tolerate.</div>
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<div>I also agree that there is an "<SPAN class=correction id="">NPR</SPAN> blandness imprint" to <SPAN class=correction id="">TAL</SPAN> to a degree, and the show doesn't push categorical boundaries like Joe <SPAN class=correction id="">Frank's</SPAN> shows have, and so on. <SPAN class=correction id="">TAL</SPAN> is a story anthology, a decent one, told from the point of the post-modern <SPAN class=correction id="">hipeoisie</SPAN> and isn't an experiment in <SPAN class=correction id="">nonobjective</SPAN> radio the way <SPAN class=correction id="">Joe's</SPAN> work often is.</div>
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<div>So, maybe let's leave <SPAN class=correction id="">discussion</SPAN> and / or bashing of <SPAN class=correction id="">TAL</SPAN> for other <SPAN class=correction id="">fora</SPAN> and get back to Joe....</div>
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