Exactly right. To their credit, the speakers stopped interrupting in the second half of the show, but who cares? It's too late. The producers seem blissfully unaware that all listeners have a magic button that turns off the noisy nonsense instantly. What is wrong with them?

And this from a show that purports to offer something DIFFERENT from the "shouting
talking heads" of shows like The McLaughlin Group, where everybody, including the
"Moderator" screams at once.

Every microphone channel has a KILL switch. If you don't use it, we will.

I volunteer at KALX-FM, so I am intimately familiar with amateur broadcasting,
with news-readers who sound like they need to take the "Remedial English"
required course to stay enrolled at the University. But even KALX, like all stations,
encourages people to listen to "Air-Check" recordings, so they can hear
just how execrable their on-air presence really is.

It's hard to imagine that LRC participants can stand to do this, or if they do,
that they can continue to produce the drivel they purport to despise.

On my local station (KALW-FM, San Francisco) the show LRC is followed by
two excellent and amusing shows, Counterspin and My Word, so I still tune
in, hoping for the show that LRC says it is trying to be. But it is truly appalling,
and I have to believe that it is even more disappointing to the producers, so
I would like to hear them address their shortcomings. At least here, if not on air.

Seriously, as Jay Spears, who wants to listen to that?