1. Trailer for Religulous

Comment #190531 by RationalPrimate on June 9, 2008 at 8:32 am

@briancarnell

And your point is....?

2. Bill Good Interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #173840 by RationalPrimate on May 1, 2008 at 9:32 am

Hey all, I've been reading (and thoroughly enjoying) these boards for quite a while now, and finally am posting something :)
I am in Vancouver and from personal experience I can throw something into the mix re the quality and type of questions that make it into these types of public radio interviews. You guys are of course all correct, it's always the same old tired ones, but what seems to be overlooked here, is that there is producer who decides which callers make it onto the air - the producer asks the caller what he/she wants to say, and based on how exciting or controversial, the caller gets on or not. Seems to me that the Hitler/Stalin, "oh I can stump the good professor with Behe's flagellum", etc types of questions are going to pass the producer's vetting process more frequently than any intelligent question. These types of shows (and the types of questions that make it onto the air) should in no way be seen as representative of the general population's point of view. What gets on is simply what makes "good radio".
(I also got to see prof. Dawkins at The University of British Columbia on Tuesday - what a treat!)