tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7988010506615260176..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Social media has made the outsider a threatened speciesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-57451089053584493382019-12-18T08:02:29.570+00:002019-12-18T08:02:29.570+00:00Philip, thank you for that. As Libby Purves told u...Philip, thank you for that. As Libby Purves told us (https://www.overgrownpath.com/2011/10/triumph-of-faith-and-idealism-over.html):<br /><br />'To run radio you must be like an old-fashioned publisher, a 1930s Gollancz or Faber and Faber, working on faith and idealism and wanting to share what you yourself love. All that you can do is to make - and publicise - the best and most passionately well-crafted programmes you can think of. Ratings have to be watched, but calmly and with a sense of proportion. You have to believe that if even one person is swayed, or inspired, or changed, or comforted, by a programme, then that programme has been worthwhile.'<br /><br />Best wishes to you for the festive season,<br />BobPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-18517581649733224162019-12-17T23:02:41.166+00:002019-12-17T23:02:41.166+00:00Merry Christmas, festive and peaceful both, to you...Merry Christmas, festive and peaceful both, to you and your family, Bob. Your posts in 2019 made it a wiser year for me. Methinks I'll just quote in full the favourite, though far from the longest and most effusive, of the student evaluations I received during my professorial life: "I learned from him. What more could I ask?" All good things in the New Year to you.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com