Who is your favorite newscaster on NPR?

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.

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

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

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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.