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Sitting here on a Friday morning listening to Eight Forty-Eight on WBEZ and a truly idiotic discussion by representatives of the Forest Preserve District about how restoring some acreage to “presettlement prairie” conditions has more ecological significance than preserving South American rain forests (!), it struck me your discussion of the programming changes at WBEZ [Hot Type, February 20] did not go nearly far enough.
Mara Tapp was a great moderator and a talent not limited to radio–witness her pieces in national publications such as, most recently, Mother Jones. Her topics and guests were on a par with the nationally syndicated Fresh Air. Metropolis, with Aaron Freeman, Andrew Patner, et al gave better coverage to Chicago theater, music, architecture, politics, etc than, frequently, the Tribune. And who could forget Freeman’s telephone interviews on a Saturday afternoon with figures like Richard Posner (right-wing law and economics guru from the University of Chicago appointed by Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago) or Robert Eisner, a real economist from Northwestern?
