Who is your favorite newscaster on NPR?

I listen to morning edition everyday on my way to work. I love the sound of Steve Inskeeps' voice!

i wanted to throw rotting vegetables at dan schorr for his analysis of gates-gate tonight. /enemies list

yeah, that was super-lame.

I don't care for any of NPR's commentators. I prefer straightforward news.

god help me, but, eleanor beardsley

Maura Liasson is an expert at spouting received wisdom.

Eleanor Beardsley YES! Besides news I also loveeee Car Talk. The snorting gets on my nerves sometimes but I usually learn something very important.

nina totenberg is an alcoholic hussy (that may not be true)

eleanor beardsley's voice/accent is very comforting to me for some reason

karl casell needs to be put out to pasture. there i said it.

karl casell sounds like death but he's a whippersnapper compared to daniel schorr

I think it's funny how the prize for wait wait don't tell me is his voice on your answering machine.

sheeit it was daniel schorr i was thinking of!

well lol they all old

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton!

Or maybe Sylvia Poggioli.

http://media.npr.org/news/specials/poggioli/strip_lg.jpg

I've had the impression that many people don't have much respect for npr, something I've never understood. As if it represents a certain lifestyle, that is not edgy enough. I've listen to npr for years, mainly all things considered. Though not the best news soucre, I find it much better than anything found on television. I'm sure this has been discussed on many threads before, and maybe I haven't the wrong impression; but why is npr thought of a joke around here?

I meant many people on ilxor, above.

I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that it's easy to caricature NPR's listenership, but that's never stopped me from enjoying it.

Who exactly is NPR's listenership? I'm a construction worker/DJ.

Well, that's the thing. I know a few NPR listeners who I would not hesitate to label as stereotypical public radio fans, but I also know a few who aren't at all. I mean, on more than one occasion, I've stepped into a cab driven by an Arab or South Asian immigrant with the local public-radio affiliate on.

WWDTM ueber alles, nicht wahr?

I always liked Laxmi Singh's enunciation, and Melissa Block has a lovely voice.

kasell haters leave now!!!!!

Robert Siegel sounds kind of haughty, like he would laugh in a way that would be described as "mirthless" -- but I kind of love that about him.

linda wertheimer for all time, btw

kasell haters leave now!!!!!

OTM

Linda Wertheimer has to be my favorite.

I'm totally a walking stereotype NPR listener and have no problem with that.

Right now I'm going to say Robert Siegel just because he read my letter on the air a couple weeks ago, but I kind of love Ofeibea Quist-Arcton.

yeah is it weird that when i was a kid i was all 'ugh mom and dad why do we ALWAYS have to listen to npr???!' and now it's like... 90% of what i listen to...

Question for people who have been listening to NPR in the last decade - Do you think it's gone a lot further to the left than it used to be? I've got some republican relatives who used to listen to it constantly, but now can't stomach it. Trying to figure out if it's actually moved left or if everyone's just more sensitive now after the media battles of the Bush years.

Also Totenberg reading the supreme court transcripts has always done something for me.

I frankly think the Republicans have moved further into the batshit category.

yes

wasn't there some Republican takeover of public broadcasting during this time?

also: Katya Rogers
http://www.onthemedia.org/images/staff_katya.jpg

rowl! (though not technically a newscaster)

Also Totenberg reading the supreme court transcripts has always done something for me.

― Moreno, Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:40 PM (13 minutes ago)

^^^

I frankly think the Republicans have moved further into the batshit category.

Yes. I've noticed no change in npr's news coverage in the last ten years, I think the right has just become a lot more resistant to things like facts -- just look a the birthers.

"I've noticed no change in npr's news coverage"
wouldn't you say it feels thinner? more coverage of piano cats and such? (no doubt due to funding cuts from evil republican overlords in charge of public broadcasting)

i think the middlebrow culture magazine type stuff came in under clinton anyway, if i remember right

wouldn't you say it feels thinner? more coverage of piano cats and such?

Yes, it does seem thinner, but I was talking about whether their coverage has moved leftwards or not.

I sort of figure meatier coverage (particularly overseas issues) to be the province of the left and inane domestic gossipy stories to be "populist" right-winger material.

I guess TMZ does lean leftwards though, yeah?

i hate neda ullaby

maybe you are cranky because you are sleepy

maybe you just...neda ullaby

olol

she looks like gabbneb

http://media.npr.org/about/people/bios/biophotos/nulaby.jpg?t=1248648287&s=2

omg

I know it is petty, but just hearing her name annoys me. It's like she made up that name to get on NPR, and her real name is Jennifer Smith.

haha. she's so quirky.

Song about Lakshmi Singh (underneath the one about a Surfing Taco)

http://parrygripp.com/week26.html

Carl Kasell quits newscasts, will get to sleep past 1 a.m.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nprs_carl_kasell_leaving_newsc.html

Eleanor Beardsley YES! Besides news I also loveeee Car Talk. The snorting gets on my nerves sometimes but I usually learn something very important.

― Sunny River, Wednesday, July 29, 2009

^^^ this sock had potential!

...

another droney anesthetizing voice

I preefer that to emotive/overly interpretive ones.

i wanted to throw rotting vegetables at dan schorr for his analysis of gates-gate tonight. /enemies list anything

― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:40 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

the guy is 140 years old.

i raged at him on twitter the other day it was so satisfying

lol his voice lulls me into a trance. i think, "i love this guy but i'm not sure what he said" so ur probably otm but i don't know

you AND Richard Nixon (not on twitter, just on tapes) xp

Favorite NPR names:

Kai Ryssdal
Sylvia Poggioli
Soterios Johnson

doualy xaykaothao

i wanted to throw rotting vegetables at dan schorr for his analysis of gates-gate tonight. /enemies list anything

How quickly they forget.

Kai Ryssdal
Soterios Johnson

^^^ have been spelling these names totally differently in my mind for years

"Kai Rizdal" and "Saterius Johnson"

doualy xaykaothao

love this name and always wondered how it was spelled

"Satirius" is so much better! Like he's in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WNYC.

I have a huge crush on Kai Ryssdal's voice...he makes me heart the economy and everything about it

Any love for Ira Flato?

I like Ira.

i hate neda ullaby

― harbl, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:52 PM (3 months ago)

another good name NPR that i don't know how to spell is Soraya Sarhadi-Nelson; she reports from Afghanistan.

the guy who preceded Kai Ryssdal had an even swoonier voice; i can't remember his name now. something about marketplace, i guess.

Favorite name: Snigdha Prakash (whose name I heard as "Snit Paprikash" for the longest time)
Favorite newscaster overall: Nina Totenberg reporting on the Supreme Court

^^^

Eleanor Beardsley YES! Besides news I also loveeee Car Talk. The snorting gets on my nerves sometimes but I usually learn something very important.

― Sunny River

http://www.desicomments.com/dc/14/34898/34898.jpg

I'm not a racist but it wasn't Juan Williams.

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams continued. "You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101021/cm_yblog_upshot/npr-fires-juan-williams-for-muslim-remarks-on-fox

He should have been suspended instead of fired imo

I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims

Would you say that about a nun? I'm not unconscious of the fact that exremist Islamists are a greater terrorist threat than, say, Tibetan Buddhists but it's unhelpful not to mention categorically incorrect to conflate either piety or maintaining traditional 'garb' (more of an ethnic cultural thing, me thinks, than strictly religious as long as a woman is 'modest') w/a propensity to terrorism.

I think the firing is opportunistic - they haven't been getting along as of late, anyhow.

Juan Williams should be better informed about what the 9/11 hijackers looked like. They purposely avoided "muslim garb", and purposely violated many restrictions imposed on strictly observant muslims, in order not to draw attention to themselves or arouse suspicion.

stupid thing to say stupid reason to fire the guy stupid responses from republicans just dumb all around good luck usa

NPR's Jackie Lyden, what do you require by way of fuck-you money?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=510313

Soterios Johnson just called Sunday "tax day" on his news/weathercast, tho taxes are actually due on Tuesday. Dick.

Eleanor Beardsley YES! Besides news I also loveeee Car Talk. The snorting gets on my nerves sometimes but I usually learn something very important.

― Sunny River

Cart Talk calling it quits after 35 years (25 on NPR)! NPR will play best-ofs, however, for the foreseeable future.

HOLD ON...THIS JUST IN

CAR Talk also calling quits.

also, I love the guy who sounds like Tom Bodett. Every story sounds like old Motel 6 commercial.

Also kinda weird because Tom Bodett's has been a reg on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Can't remember that reporter's name atm.

Last thing: Shay Stevens' late night updates are very soothing. Doesn't hurt that they come on during Jazz with Bob Parlocha.

car talk is so awesome
rip brothers who wont stop laughing at each other

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2278/2055067451_e9cfc377c3_z.jpg?zz=1

zoe chace's delivery drives me nuts. in the bad way!

nina totenberg is an alcoholic hussy (that may not be true)

― velko, Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post has managed to crack me up five times in the span of a few minutes.

she does happen to be exactly 69 years old....

i like zoe chace's voice

she sounds like my friend who is from rochester, ny.

I don't like any of them, but I do enjoy doing impersonations of Robert Siegel.

argh i hate zoe chace too! harsh voice, harsher accent. is she from cleveland? erie, pa? buffalo? anyway i came here to say kristian foden-vencil. who i thought was christian fodenvetzel.

i like how wade goodwyn always sounds like he's shaking his head, ruefully amused

I can't stand Ari Shapiro. I can tolerate a lot of NPR-ness, but Shapiro is such an insufferable dweeb. I can't take the bad jokes, the forced smile, the doting interviews with truly awful authors.

I miss Michele Norris and Melissa Block :(

Bob Edwards

i like how wade goodwyn always sounds like he's shaking his head, ruefully amused

― goole, Friday, May 27, 2016 12:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are few voices I can't stand. His is one of them.

i hate neda ullaby

― harbl, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:52 PM (seven years ago)

i haven't heard from her in a while. she has been replaced as #1 most hated by mary louise kelly. you just can't talk like that. stop it.

ASK COKIE this morning! My Q: How do you *still* have a fucking job?

Mara Liasson's "analysis" of SC today was pure dishwater. Cokie would be proud.