Media

I have been aware of ian masters since at least the 1980s. I'm not sure his show was always called Background Briefing, in the early days it may have been called something else. Right now, his is the BEST show on radio, PERIOD. I am a chronic listener and re-listener. You say he is one sided on these foreign policy issues, but you don't specify how.

Ian has in recent weeks and months had some amazing, amazing guests that I haven't heard about anywhere else. He's NOT a dumb "neutral" journalist, he has an element of advocacy. and yet he doesn't really get in the way of his guests, either. Ian always plays it cool, always understated. Some of the two brightest lights in recent weeks were Henry Giroux and George Lakoff and Chris Hedges. I mean they were fucking amazing interviews saturated with depth and meaning and insight.

The thing I've noticed is that guests are much better when they phone in from their private location than when they come into a television studio. Henry Giroux was like night and day. Sitting in a television studio with lights and cameras is very intimidating, and with Bill Moyers, Giroux really tightened up and spoke slowly and haltingly. With Ian Masters, Giroux came in one a phone line and he was really able to relax and be himself. WOW. He was a different person, so different i bought one of his books and read it.

So despite the low fidelity of a phone line, the sacrifice is worth it because guests feel way more comfortable and open up much more.

Good luck. And one additional thought about the media.

"The industry that practices issue evasion and suppression on a massive scale, while showering itself with awards for accuracy and integrity, is ITSELF the issue."

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