I agree. Please take it away. I listen on WNYC's AM station and I find both hosts unbelievably insulting, rude, and abrasive. If I wanted this type of morning radio show, I would listen to Howard Stern or Don Imus.

I have supported National Public Radio and WNYC for 20 years. I have NEVER before written an email to express my opinion and to make a request. I loved listening to National Public Radio in the morning with both Morning Edition and Marketplace. I absolutely detest this show – The Takeaway – it doesn’t add any insight, information or education to current events. I desperately want to listen to the in depth work that is reflected in Morning Edition, and the guests who are intelligently interviewed and questioned. I find The Takeaway to be an innocuous and vacuous ad-lib talk show. Interviews are just soap box commentary by the guest, no interview research to be heard or challenged. I found the Convention coverage appalling; reporters calling in to offer their opinions of who said what. I rely on NPR to provide insight and carefully researched commentary.

I am desperate for alternative and insightful reporting on the bailout. Listening in the morning as I get ready for work, is my opportunity to gain insight into current events.

If I were a paranoid person, I would applaud the mainstream supporters of The Takeaway, Liberty Mutual and Knight Foundation for creating a show to dull the senses of interested, and engaged Americans a la -- if you can beat 'em, join 'em.

Please return Morning Edition and take away the The Takeaway.

I am disappointed by the superficiality of "The Take Away" and the fact that it has replaced "Morning Edition" at 6 a.m. on wnyc. It is exactly the kind of program that I listen to NPR to get away from. I want to start my day with an intelligent overview of what's going on in the world, not nonsense like this morning's survey of listeners on how they "decorate their cubicles!" You have, if I am to be direct, lost your way. I have been a steady supporter of PRI, NPR, and wnyc, but you are losing my support. You have taken the worst reality TV ideas and brought them to radio. Please pilot this program somewhere else, if you must, and not expect loyal ME listeners to wade through the static of AM to try to listen to Morning Edition. Thanks.

Ok..I admit it. I am slow to like a new thing, any thing, and when NPR started changing things on my radio standards I was not happy.

No matter my dislike of Change I still had to listen to the radio as I drove home from work.

So as I drove, I heard this Young sounding Girl like personality talking to the next generation of talk radio listeners, and giving a flipped side of news and humor to the human condition.

So forgive me for taking a few episodes to be won over by this Hight spirited and obviously intelligent woman that has brought humor into my life and a desire to hear the next thing she and her cohorts are going to do.

Faith your wit has won me over, and I can't believe that you are even more beautiful than I had imagined you to be by hearing your voice.

Keep it up girl and I'll keep listening as long as my drive home stays the same...lol

when i first got my sirius radio i listened all the time. you're great. love this
am life,whdyaknow and news, afropop. then u disappeared. i saw online you're on xm,
phoey! hope merger goes thru so i can listen to you on satellite radio. work requires
traveling so terrestrial radio is cumbersome.

I have been listening to "The Takeaway" since its debut a few weeks ago. This program should be canceled. The banter (albeit among otherwise accomplished journalists) adds nothing to the news which is the reason I listen to public radio in the morning. If someone wants this kind of "morning duo" style, there are any number of commercial stations offering it (and I never listen to them!). The "hard news" segments are OK but too few and far between. Surely PRI can do better than this (you have many times in the past). Let's put all of us out of our misery and take "The Takeaway" away.

I am a long-time fan of public radio, and a financial supporter for many years of both of the public radio stations in the Albany/Schenectady, NY area. However, I have reached the point where I must register a strong complaint against two irritating and frustrating techniques used constantly by PRI: (1) The responses made in English by ESL interviewees to the reporter's questions are far too often unmintelligible to a US listener. And where an interviewee is speaking in his/her native language and an interpreter is used, the result for the listener is frequently even worse because the interviewee and the interpreter will often be speaking at the same time. The result often is complete gibberish; (2) In interviews done in an outdoor setting, PRI has a habit of picking up extraneous background noise (traffic, crowd noises, jackhammers, etc.) at a level that all but drown out the verbal exchange. In both situations, the listener ends up wanting to throttle both the producer and the director of the segment. I'm sure that the objective of PRI is realism, but what you are reaping is irritation and frustration. And incidentally, your unduly lengthy and cumbersome registration process doesn't help your image, either.

The Gitmo Hospitality Tips were offensive and out of line with ethics I expect from you. This sort of humor is racist and imperialistic, hope you are proud.

I can't believe it. The best show on Public Radio is biting the dust. I have a huge radio crush on Faith Salie. Hearing her voice makes my day. And she's so smart and funny. I think this decision is so short-sighted. I've been a public radio listener and donor for years, but will no longer give any money to protest this horrible decision.

I am completely distraught! My life is over! You are canceling Fair Game? What are you thinking? This show is the best thing that has ever happened to public radio. I cannot stand to miss a single show. Please, please, give me back Faith Salie and her sarcastic crew! I am begging you!

Fair Game is smart, funny, more on point than On Point, and provides a broad and light perspective on issues we take seriously. Such perspective, like sarcasm, is essential when we are surrounded by such banality in the main stream media. It's also misunderstood by many who are not your friends. Please keep it, get it back, or do even more with this show in the future. If my local station doesn't stick up for this show.. no more $. This was finally a show I could share with otherwise "disconnected" friends and they got it. Please undo this bad decision and don't cancel the show.

I, too, am saddened by the loss of Fair Game. It has been my evening companion since my local public radio station began carrying it, and a large part of why I contributed to KERA's pledge drive this year. I don't know how I will get through another Thursday without "Bathed in Glory". To Faith and the other people who made this show so delightful: Thank you!

Don't cancel it, please! 'This American Life' might, by a small measure, be better, but I love this show dearly. Come on, PRI. Do us a solid. Don't ax Fair game.

I think Ira Glass has a good show, but I can't stand to listen to him any longer because I only catch about every third word. For a radio comentator he has the worst diction I have ever heard, and he sounds like he is making a commerical where every second counts.

Please re-think the format of The Takeaway. This horrible show has practically caused me to punch holes in my dashboard as I race to change the station and find something less obnoxious. If I wanted to listen to Howard Stern in the AM, I would. At 6 AM I want serious news not banter and sound effects.

Repeatedly, I have started listening to the Bob Edwards Weekend program and find someone I really like and would like to get more information but I don't know who the guest is. When I go to his site, there is no list of the current guests and I can't figure out how to find out who the guest is. Today's guest was a woman poet whose name I never caught.

It is June 17, 2008 and i am hearing about all of the energy problems we have I think that the simple act of boycotting MEAT would go so far very few really GET IT.
Meat is just not that great..... WHO needs it???

I am still looking for something to listen to after Fair Game left. For some reason it is hard to listen to people who are not experinced stand-ups, experienced actors, and Rhodes Scholars all in one. Do you have any suggestions?

DITTO!

PRI shows are always interesting and illuminating BUT please please make a new slate in which the announcer pronounces InternaTional and not "inner-national". It makes us look so foolish to mispronounce our own language then wonder why our children can't spell and are poor readers. Radio announcers should continue to set standard speech! Bring back the "T" in international! Interview! Internet!
what is the reason you tolerate otherwise?