Dear Mr. Baldwin,

my sister and I enjoy your podcast a lot! We are 16 and 19 years old and like that your guest list features famous figures with a politcal or creative (and often both) career.
Like many people our age we love Family Guy and other work of Seth MacFarlane. Having watched several interviews with him, we find that he is a very interesting, likeable and fascinating person and with his career he would go along great with the selection of your guests. Therefore, we think an episode of Here's the Thing with Mr. MacFarlane would be very enlightening. If you could arrange to meet with him we would very much appreciate it.

Sincerly yours,

Pia and Valentin Springsklee

I'm sure she's a smart woman, so how is it possible that she lacks the self- awareness to know how irritating she sounds? That voice...pure torture! She's a caricature. I kept thinking I was trapped in an SNL skit!

i love alec's show... i've heard every episode and cannot get enough.... while i respect, love and enjoy the Times, i was unable to get through the entire show based on Jill's voice and speech patterns, someone who holds such a tremendously important job should be self aware enough to try and correct that.

I enjoyed the interview. I was reminded of events and facts of the past that inform the present. It was reassuring to share what we've come through with the press, threatening, in my opinion, the "freedom of the press". There is a "shrine" to that freedom resulting from the opinion of an election held on "the green" now in front of St. Paul's Church just over the city-line in Westchester County. The owner of the only other printing press in the colony, John Peter Zenger, and who arrived on Governors Island at the age of 10 from the German Palatine, could not be held prisoner or liable for providing the press that published an opinion not held by the "official press". A small monument to his arrival I once saw there. The New York Times is a standard-bearer of reporting and opinion and Ms. Abramson appears to be an informed editor. May it always be so.

Some great validating comments about Jill's voice, and her stances on hiring women etc. I couldn't listen to it in it's entirety. It really was too painful. I want to know what the process of deciding to go ahead with this interview was like. A voice over..pretending she didn't speak English, or had laryngitis, or whatever would have served so many, so much more.

My God, that voice could peel paint off a wall! I had to bolt after 5 minutes.

Making a case for more women on staff while begging senior editors to take voluntary retirement must cause howling over on 8th Avenue. Our bloodhound actor/host prefers to avoid the messy details of what's wrong and opts to pet her golden retriever instead. I thought public radio had some obligation to the community...or something.

Curiously Abramson uses the words conservative, very conservative and extreme conservative to describe her old employer--as if each of those means exactly what the other means. Does this mean that Abramson was neither of these and STILL they let her loose to write articles on their behalf? Might that also make the case that the Wall Street Journal was nowhere near as she describes it? The actor-host is more interested in massage so we'll have to hazard a guess that there was a firewall between the newsroom and editorial.

I started listening to Jill Abramson, but found her speech mannerisms too distracting.

Wow. I wish I could get through this but I just can't. Her voice.... just.... ouch.

Oh my god! How did you make it through your Jill Abramson interview? Her voice is like being injected with a lethal poison! Did you freak? Your a strong strong man. It's killing me!

Absolutely love your interviews. Never liked her, but I have gotten over it, I think.

More of a general comment though it bears on this conversation.

Please keep it up Mr. Baldwin. Living in Wyoming, I listen to each show as it is posted to iTunes and appreciate the exposure it gives me to a world I don't often get to see or hear about. I sometimes can't relate to your guests or disagree with them, but I appreciate the chance to get to hear their perspective. My world is a bigger place because of your work, thanks.

As for Ms. Abramson, I was disheartened by her sexists comments regarding hiring more women. Talk like "get over it" if others can't handle her preferences do nobody any good.