More Tavis: The now ex-NPR host tells Salon in a Q-and-A that the network is “not National Some-of-the Public Radio, it’s National All-of-the-Public Radio. And NPR has got to do a better job of making that moniker… a reality.” Smiley says his show’s numbers outpaced projections, refuting researcher claims that the audience only wants to hear, as the webmag puts it, “the dulcet tones of Linda Wertheimer sound-alikes who’ve come to define public radio.” (free day pass req.)