No Agenda is a podcast which takes place two times a week on Thursday and Sunday in the morning, hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak on the mevio network. The show is a free-flowing conversation that deconstructs recent news and media memes. Much of the appeal of the show comes from the odd couple relationship between the hosts. Adam Curry usually suggests theories about the news or world events, whereas John C. Dvorak is intended to present a more reasoned perspective, and as acting as the "Straight man" to Curry.
The show has no advertisers, instead relying on its listeners to voluntarily donate in either lump sums or a recurring plan (referred to by the hosts as the "Value for Value" model). The show also relies on their listeners (known as "Producers") to provide artwork and audio clips. Numerous fan sites have sprung up to facilitate this interaction.
In September 2009, the show was nominated for Podcast Awards in two categories, "People's Choice" and "General".
In December 2009 the show announced they had reached 450,000 listeners.
In 2009 the program and hosts received further acclaim from Talkers Magazine, having been featured in their "Frontier Fifty", an alphabetically sorted list containing a "Selection of Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters."
Read more about No Agenda: Contents, History, Influences, The No Agenda Stream, The Dvorak Interlude, Recurring Themes and Catch Phrases
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“The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)