I'm obscurely comforted by the thought that there are parallels across the ocean of folk radio personalites who can be as clueless about performers as one of our local lads who regularly makes up stuff to make himself sound like he's got special IMPORTANT knowledge. It's all the more infuriating because he frequently DOES know stuff, has a huge audience because he's (bless his heart, seriously) been promotiing folk music for forever.

So when he "discovers" someone I've been listening to since the days of vinyl & tried to introduce him to back in the 80s, or makes some outrageously factual blunder (blathered about how a well known Chicago born fiddler had "won so many all-Ireland competitions that she moved here") it makes me grind my teeth and swear at the radio.

I comfort myself with "It's on the radio where folks can HEAR IT, it's wonderful and more people will know about it" (repeat over and over till I calm down)