I think it's funny how the prize for wait wait don't tell me is his voice on your answering machine.
― Sunny River, Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
sheeit it was daniel schorr i was thinking of!
well lol they all old
― goole, Thursday, 30 July 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton!
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Thursday, 30 July 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Or maybe Sylvia Poggioli.
http://media.npr.org/news/specials/poggioli/strip_lg.jpg
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Thursday, 30 July 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 30 July 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I meant many people on ilxor, above.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 30 July 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Who exactly is NPR's listenership? I'm a construction worker/DJ.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 30 July 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
WWDTM ueber alles, nicht wahr?
― Leee, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I always liked Laxmi Singh's enunciation, and Melissa Block has a lovely voice.
― Leee, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
kasell haters leave now!!!!!
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
linda wertheimer for all time, btw
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
OTM
― brash trash talker (dan m), Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Linda Wertheimer has to be my favorite.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 30 July 2009 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Thursday, 30 July 2009 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 July 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Moreno, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I frankly think the Republicans have moved further into the batshit category.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― omar little, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
wasn't there some Republican takeover of public broadcasting during this time?
also: Katya Rogershttp://www.onthemedia.org/images/staff_katya.jpg
rowl! (though not technically a newscaster)
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― Moreno, Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:40 PM (13 minutes ago)
^^^
― goole, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"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)
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the middlebrow culture magazine type stuff came in under clinton anyway, if i remember right
― goole, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate neda ullaby
― harbl, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe you are cranky because you are sleepy
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe you just...neda ullaby
olol
― harbl, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
she looks like gabbneb
http://media.npr.org/about/people/bios/biophotos/nulaby.jpg?t=1248648287&s=2
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
omg
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
haha. she's so quirky.
― harbl, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Song about Lakshmi Singh (underneath the one about a Surfing Taco)
http://parrygripp.com/week26.html
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― velko, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
had some great WDYLL work
― everyone stop (dan m), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
will someone profile who the "stereotypical NPR listener" is? it was mentioned up-thread and i hear about the stereotype but i'm only marginally aware of it... is it a yuppie image?
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i like Robert Siegel's btw
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so today was carl kasell's last day. in my half-awake state i was listening this morning to him chatting about his 30 years on the job. did i hear him say something about dropping acid? something about a "sheep head of tears"? he and his friends would sit around a table and take acid and have "these thoughts." did i dream this?
― andrew m., Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's the NPR link. Glad to hear he's not leaving 'Wait, Wait... Don't tell me'.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just not all that convinced of an ideological bent with NPR, esp with regards to general coverage. one could possibly make the argument that their choices in human interest segments - e.g. domesticated lesbian trying to adopt etc - evidence some sort of left-of-center principles, but what the hell ever. i think the seeds for this OMG NPR LIBERAL BIAS were sewn in the early 90s. or at least i remember my dad exhibiting derisiveness when the topic came up. you could probably trace it back to Limbaugh...
― you want a war on christmas i'll give you a fuckin war on christmas (will), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Their liberal bias is evidenced mainly by their reliance on facts as opposed to ideology.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The religion correspondent, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, has gotten a lot of criticism from the godless left for being a not-so-secret Fundie/Fundie Sympathizer.
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
w/out WWDTM?, we never would've known Kasell could be anything but another droney anesthetizing voice.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
...
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
another droney anesthetizing voice
I preefer that to emotive/overly interpretive ones.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"Kai Rizdal" and "Saterius Johnson"
― max, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
doualy xaykaothao
love this name and always wondered how it was spelled
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Satirius" is so much better! Like he's in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WNYC.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Ira.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― harbl, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:52 PM (3 months ago)
― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― Sunny River
http://www.desicomments.com/dc/14/34898/34898.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― I Want to Change My Password... (bnw), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
He should have been suspended instead of fired imo
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 October 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
stupid thing to say stupid reason to fire the guy stupid responses from republicans just dumb all around good luck usa
― max, Friday, 22 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
NPR's Jackie Lyden, what do you require by way of fuck-you money?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=510313
― buzza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Soterios Johnson just called Sunday "tax day" on his news/weathercast, tho taxes are actually due on Tuesday. Dick.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Saturday, 19 May 2012 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
Cart Talk calling it quits after 35 years (25 on NPR)! NPR will play best-ofs, however, for the foreseeable future.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Last thing: Shay Stevens' late night updates are very soothing. Doesn't hurt that they come on during Jazz with Bob Parlocha.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
car talk is so awesomerip brothers who wont stop laughing at each other
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2278/2055067451_e9cfc377c3_z.jpg?zz=1
― buzza, Saturday, 2 March 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
zoe chace's delivery drives me nuts. in the bad way!
― andrew m., Friday, 19 July 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
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this post has managed to crack me up five times in the span of a few minutes.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 20 July 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
she does happen to be exactly 69 years old....
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
i like zoe chace's voice
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
she sounds like my friend who is from rochester, ny.
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
I don't like any of them, but I do enjoy doing impersonations of Robert Siegel.
― all other cassettes are better off crushed (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 July 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― single white hairball (harbl), Monday, 18 November 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
i like how wade goodwyn always sounds like he's shaking his head, ruefully amused
― goole, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
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 :(
― Evan R, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Bob Edwards
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
ASK COKIE this morning! My Q: How do you *still* have a fucking job?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Mara Liasson's "analysis" of SC today was pure dishwater. Cokie would be proud.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link