Who is your favorite newscaster on NPR?

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!

had some great WDYLL work

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?

i like Robert Siegel's btw

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?

Here's the NPR link. Glad to hear he's not leaving 'Wait, Wait... Don't tell me'.

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...

Their liberal bias is evidenced mainly by their reliance on facts as opposed to ideology.

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.

w/out WWDTM?, we never would've known Kasell could be anything but another droney anesthetizing voice.

...

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.

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.