The Takeaway

Marie commented on The Takeaway on 04.13.12
I dont agree that someone who signed the petition that Mark Zimmerman go to trial should be disqualified as a jurist. I feel compassion for both sides and have not prejudged Mr. Zimmerman, but how can we know the truth if he doesnt come to trial?

Jonas commented on The Takeaway on 03.02.12
Todays show was even more thoughtless than usual. Your interview with the socalled "big thinker" computer personat the vacation spa in Ca allowed her to simply speak in platitudes. Politicans really want to improve everyones lives? They dedicated to doing whats best for all the citizens? Politiciaans will be voted out of office if they dont do the right thing? Really!!!! Not even you guys can really beieve that rot. In the guise of doing a news interview you simply perpetuate the usual media myths and lies about what governemtn is really doing. What cahnce is there to actually vote any manstream mayor out of office? What opportunity is there for a citizen to actually have actually have their voice heard at city hall?

Walter commented on The Takeaway on 02.04.12
I have tried to suffer through The Takeaway, but am finding is still more annoying than an alarm clock. The reporting is sophomoric and the interviews are not engaging. The hosts repeatedly talk over the guests and each other, and often abruptly end the conversation when they run out of time. Please, bring back the old schedule.

Judith commented on The Takeaway on 11.03.11
I have been listening to public radio since the early 1970s. I find "The Takeaway" to be both annoying and shallow definitely not the kind of reporting and commentary I have come to expect on public radio. I agree with others who compare this program to FoxNews and its ilk. The hosts of "The Takeaway" are too often shrill and combative, and too infrequently given to thoughtful exchanges. This mornings introduction of a story about Herman Cain and his campaign woes was particularly offensive John Hockenberry referred to allegations of "sexual assault" having been leveled against Mr. Cain. Only at the close of that news segment did Mr. Hockenberry correct his introductory statement, saying he meant to say "sexual harassment" instead. Very unprofessional and exactly the type of inflammatory journalistic harangue that I detest in the commercial media. It is disappointing, to say the least, to hear such stuff on public radio.

Judith commented on The Takeaway on 11.03.11
I have been listening to public radio since the early 1970s. I find "The Takeaway" to be both annoying and shallow definitely not the kind of reporting and commentary I have come to expect on public radio. I agree with others who compare this program to FoxNews and its ilk. The hosts of "The Takeaway" are too often shrill and combative, and too infrequently given to thoughtful exchanges. This mornings introduction of a story about Herman Cain and his campaign woes was particularly offensive John Hockenberry referred to allegations of "sexual assault" having been leveled against Mr. Cain. Only at the close of that news segment did Mr. Hockenberry correct his introductory statement, saying he meant to say "sexual harassment" instead. Very unprofessional and exactly the type of inflammatory journalistic harangue that I detest in the commercial media. It is disappointing, to say the least, to hear such stuff on public radio.

Amy commented on The Takeaway on 10.17.11
About the only positive comment I can make about The Takeway is that it does serve to keep me from oversleeping. I can manage about 3 or 4 minutes before I am so frustrated by the insipid "spontaeous conversation", that I turn it off and get started on the day. Why WGBH thinks this is a good morning program is beyond me. What a waste of radio time, bring back Morning Edition.

James commented on The Takeaway on 08.03.11
I appreciate GBHs effort to experiment with a more "conversational" format by producing "The Takeaway". Instead you have produced a moronic waste of time and resources. Ive had it with this FoxNews wannabe. No more support from me, GBH, until you give this one up. BUR here I come.

Cynthia commented on The Takeaway on 11.12.10
Comment on this morning topic of increasing taxes Me sacrifice? AGAIN? I’ve already sacrificed. I’ve been sacrificing for YEARS! At 56 years old, I have worked since I was 15, overtime and second jobs much of the time with brief hiatuses to have my son, when I moved back to MA and when I was laid off from a company where I had worked for 25 years, and even then, I took a parttime job and didn’t collect my full Unemployment. I’ve worked through years of no pay raises while TAXES and the cost of living increased. Every year I can afford less and less. I’ve cut out going to movies, going out to dinner, going to events I used to go to every year, buying books and music, clothes, even giving to charities. I can’t afford to buy lunch. My prescription is about to run out, and I can’t refill it for another week. I haven’t been able to finish the home improvements on my condo. My car needs the fan belt tightened and is going to need a ball joint replaced, soon. I can’t afford to do it without selling something. I can’t afford the gas to even go for a long drive someplace. And Christmas??? I’ve sacrificed, which in turn, means my son has also sacrificed. My poor Mom worked and raised seven children on her own. Now that she’s retired and in her 80’s, she has to jump through hoops filling out stack after stack of paperwork to get her meager social security and Medicare. Now, the legislators are going to cut them even further? I think we’ve sacrificed enough. Peoples’ homes are being foreclosed. In the meantime, legislators, who are supposed to work for and are PAID by “we the people” taxpayers, eat at the finest restaurants, go to gourmetcatered events, stay in the best hotels, buy yachts, go to spas, take expensive vacations, enjoy the finest medical care at no expense to themselves, receive exorbitant salaries and benefits. They tell US we have to pay higher taxes while they do everything in their power to evade them and don’t have to abide by the laws they impose on us. I have a radical idea for cutting the U.S. budget. Let THEM the legislators do some sacrificing, for a change. No more sixfigure salaries They were never supposed to be paid, in the first place. It was supposed to be enough that it was an honor to serve.. No more luxury food, hotels, vacations, etc. When do people wake up and get angry and say, “NO MORE! We’re tired of the doublestandard. We’re tired of two sets of rules. No more telling us we have to give things up and sacrifice for the good of our country and future generations,” when it’s really for their own good. If it is so good for the public and society, then THEY, the legislators should be willing and happy to make some sacrifices and abide by the same rules and laws imposed on us. After this past November 2nd election, many of them, now, will have to abide by the same rules and laws. Maybe, when the legislators demand that voters and taxpayers make sacrifices and pass laws, they need to be aware that someday, they too WILL have to live by them! And if someone else wants to pay more taxes, FINE. Let HIM!

Catherine commented on The Takeaway on 09.29.10
I listen to some of the Takeaway every morning. Belinda Robinson, the news announcer in Boston, keeps referring to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Party". This morning she mentioned a "Democrat candidate". I wish shed either get the partys name right, or start calling the Republican Party the "Republic Party".

John commented on The Takeaway on 09.23.10
Oh, to have Morning Edition back at 600 am ....

Michael commented on The Takeaway on 09.08.10
This morning on my way to work I was listening to the station as I do most mornings. The topic of the BP report came up a few times and I have to say I was very disappointed in how it was introduced. Each time it was brought up it was labeled as BP "passing the blame" and looking for a "scapegoat" about the oil spill. Nothing in the subsequent report or information indicates BP is not taking responsibility for their issues that led to this explosion and oil spill. To sentionalise this report as was being done made me turn off the program as I no longer cared about what the commentators had to say. BP has a blame here, but there is nothing that shows they have not been standing up, accepting blame, and doing what they can to make this right. They didnt need to do this investigation, and certainly didnt need to make it public. But they did and it shows all of the faults, theirs and everyone elses, that led to the incident. To start off the report so negatively is just the biased reporting I dont expect from NPR.

Daniel commented on The Takeaway on 08.23.10
Being a younger listener I really enjoy this show. I find it very entertaining and there is a lot of great information coming from this show that you dont get with the usual call in shows that are aired during the day. We need more shows like this on NPR. When WGBH first made the change there was also Radio Lab and that was later taken off their schedule. We need more shows like this and Radio Lab so that NPR can attract more 2030 year old listeners like myself. Sure older people may have more money to donate but it is the younger people that will help keep NPR on the radio. It just seems that NPR is starting to be out of touch with the next generation as if it is aging with the original listeners of the 1970s.

Evan commented on The Takeaway on 08.08.10
The TakeAway is the most disappointing part of the change in programming for the "New GBH". The level of analysis and production is far below the standards of what I came to expect from GBH, having listened since I was 8. I hope that enough listener comments will encourage our station to dedicate its money and time to more interesting and rigorous commentary, even on pop culture. This is show is neither entertaining nor insightful, just, in the most pretentious of registers and from a constant walker "pedestrian".

roy commented on The Takeaway on 06.20.10
i think your broadcast is wonderful. i can only imagine how much research goes into each one. thanks for all the hard work. roy

joanne commented on The Takeaway on 04.19.10
If this is the "new" WGBH Im very disappointed. After listening to the takeaway this morning and repeatedly checking the dial to amke sure i was on the right station,I checked the website and was not surprised to see that others felt the same way I do. I thought it sounded like entertainment tonight. The interview with the author of Grounded was an opportunity wasted by the interviewees inane questioning. I hope to see another change soon or Ill be changing the channel.

Jorge commented on The Takeaway on 03.12.10
Celeste stated that Mexico was the first Latin American nation to allow gay marriage. That is incorrect, the first Latin American nation to allow gay marriage was Argentina., November 2009

Sandy commented on The Takeaway on 03.03.10
I find "The Takeaway" to be a particularly annoying show. This starts with the name of the show, which conjures British Dectective Mysteriesnot an apt image, I think. The more cogent objection is Celeste Headlee. What an annoying squeeky voice that pours out words in a rush! She often doesnt seem to hear what her interviewees are saying. But please, give her a voice teacher! John Hockenberry is much easier on the ears.

frank commented on The Takeaway on 02.08.10
While i am happy we have a new NPR station, 89.7, that broadcasts in our area, I think that this show is just terrible. From the format to that annoying bleep sound. It reminds me of the WBZ television news program that now has "Conversation Nation" that has the reporters chitchatting and offering their opinions..just awful! I love Morning Edition, Diane Rehm and nearly all other NPR shows... but i find that when this show comes on I change the channel...

Alexander H commented on The Takeaway on 12.10.09
Really disappointed in Johns current cohost. He has had a variety of knowledgable cohosts in the past.I am unsure why some dont stay. But today I heard the "IsraeliPakistan conflict" twice from Headlee before it was corrected. I thought I would have to search a lot of high schools to find someone who didnt study the Israeli Palestine conflict that now spans forty years. Even volunteer college hosts appear more worldly than Miss Headlee did today. Help ! This use to be a qualtiy program !