Talk:This is Hell (radio)
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Sentences like "Mertz's in-depth questions and whit make him the most underated radio personality in America" are not neutral. It would be somewhat better to state something like "Some consider Mertz's in-depth questions and whit make him the most underated radio personality in America."
This page contains numerous spelling errors, including "whit", "interupted", "surprizes". I'll not make the changes because the whole thing needs a rewrite or maybe deletion.
Michael Keenan 12:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Someone is suggesting that this entry be deleted, and I don't think it would be correct or fair to do so. Although the show itself is relatively obscure, where the show has notoriety is in the guests that come onto the show. The show it most easily compares with in this respect is Democracy Now!. The format distinguishes itself in having very long format interviews, and insightful questioning by the host.
You may not know who Chuck Mertz, Jim Dorchin or LaddieO.com is, but you probably know who Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Cindy Sheehan, Dilipiro (sp?), Scott Ritter, George Galloway and Robert Fisk are. Every week it seems they manage to get guests of extremely high calibre. Even when the guests are not well known, they always seem to know a hell of a lot more than your standard "think tank" talking head that shows up on your typical morning talk shows (on TV or radio). Although I don't know how to avoid subjectivity in this claim, I would say that the guests on This is Hell are generally of higher calibre than even those of Democracy Now!.
So I would appeal to the wikipedians here not to delete this entry. The show may seem obscure by some criteria, but the content of this show is not obscure at all. Qed 13:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] merge from This Is Hell (radio)
It looks like the shows website uses the name "This is Hell", so I'd suggest we combine these duplicate articles with that capitalization (This is Hell) .Lisamh 01:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
