This is the first 9 minutes of what was essentially a quickly-arranged on-the-air-audition as a Don Imus replacement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqKzg5P59Y
What’s always refreshing about Stephanie Miller is that on her radio show she doesn’t have that perpetually angry, outraged attitude that most talk show hosts (and, alas, many of us bloggers) have. She looks at most things with a sense of bemusement and playfulness, shooting out a ton of jokes. Some work, some don’t but she gets her message across and can score solid laughs. Yes, she is partisan; but she can’t be confused with a rage-filled troll on a weblog…as many talk show hosts on the left and right can.
Here was the intro to her first show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIKtpLG71c&mode=related&search=
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.