J G Miller wrote:

But with all of the talk radio stations available on AM,
should not public radio be offering something different?

I'd normally agree, except that I've heard the state of commercial talkradio
in America and it's sad. It's made up of uninformed callers pontificating
just to hear themselves speak.

And the topics seem to be mostly politics, and worse, the party-bashing subset
of that. And when you get outside the major cities, if you hear any local
talkradio at all it's likely to be some local psychic or a "swap shop" show.

Agree or disagree, but the talk offered by the major non-comm networks, NPR,
PRI, APM, PRX, MPR, and Pacifica is for the most part top quality.