― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
-- gabbneb (gabbne...), May 6th, 2005.
Um, so then you're arguing that NPR should be for people who don't have a classical library? I don't follow.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
no, because it played stuff that went beyond the limits of most libraries. the same analogy doesn't apply to WNYC talk shows vs. the New York Times.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
But it probably would if it had bumpers. That doesn't strike me as a very significant criticism though.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
But that's just it, NPR fills a niche that the rest of radio does not. And in many situations (driving, working, etc.) radio is the only media you can take in.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 May 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 6 May 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
I definitely remember the repeated question about Evangelicals not really wanting to prevent armageddon from happening. I can't really comment too much on it, because I don't remember exactly what was said, but I do remember feeling that the interviewee was sort of avoiding the question a little bit.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― ewe never broke yr treo 4ever (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
In the 90s in Southwest Ohio.
― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Mmm yes hello I am Garrison Keillor.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU PEOPLE.
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
that was pretty funny
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― holojames (holojames), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
But is she sexy?
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
i do all the time. great show. except i call it Open Sores, cuz that's how Lydon pronounces it.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― tobo (tobo), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― tobo (tobo), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 21 January 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
maria started doing a show again on the local public access fm station and i can barely get it in my car! its right here in town! but cars don't bother with good radio anymore. this is maria's 4th radio station she has had a show on. she loves the whole thing.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:19 (two months ago) link
AM around the Bay Area still has some rad ethnic stations.. we also have public jazz & classical station on FM, and college radio
I have a KLH Model Twenty-One kitchen table radio, designed by the great Henry Kloss... with the optional satellite speaker
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:22 (two months ago) link
For another thread Andy, but I have questions about my KLH model 27.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
How many hand-wringing editorials have you seen worrying about the diversity of voices on Newsmax?
I know, like basically everyone just tacitly agrees upfront that right-wing media is nothing but ridiculous bias and ideologically slanted commentary. But the "MSM" must be held to account!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:34 (two months ago) link
Andy what are your favorite Bay Area AM stations? I haven’t explored the band too much, but there used to be a great oldies AM station that played serious lit r&b and cool fifth dimension songs and stuff
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link
the Bay Area AM dial has been pretty gutted.. KGO is essentially gone and turned into a sports-betting station called "The Spread" where they just play sports podcasts
I don't listen to as much AM as I once did.. there's an interesting conspiracy theory about new car makers completely dropping AM radios, which is where all the conservatives get their yelling-at-clouds stations, because they don't want us to hear the truth or something like that
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:43 (two months ago) link
but the slow demise of noisy commercial AM has opened up bandwidth for various ethnic language programming which is a cool development
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:45 (two months ago) link
I listen to the radio a lot — usually local NPR station unless:It’s wait wait (unbearable)It’s the insipid local daytime showIt’s a holiday and they’re playing the most unlistenable shit ever: a radio play Still prefer PBS newshour, Amna & Lisa for president, Lisa’s cat in charge of homeland security
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:47 (two months ago) link
We also recently had some major cuts to Chi Public Media that ended the sister station that played local music and was p much the only place to hear it. :(
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:48 (two months ago) link
the most unlistenable shit ever: a radio play
Lol.. I listen to all ghostly & supernatural radio plays on BBC Sounds
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater was already an oddly anachronistic format by the 1970's.. just the eerie opening music makes me super nostalgic, I used to listen to it on a old tube Philco in bed... free episodes here: https://www.cbsrmt.com/
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:58 (two months ago) link
I used to fall asleep to those as a kid!
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:26 (two months ago) link
The only good thing our local npr does is host a two hour old timey radio show with things like gun smoke.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:29 (two months ago) link
every time i hear the beginning of wait wait don't tell me i almost drive into a tree. on purpose. because it fills me with dread. its all so terrible...
― scott seward, Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:51 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is exactly how I used to feel about Prairie Home Companion. Except it would require me taking the wheel, because I was usually in the backseat with my parents playing it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 22:33 (two months ago) link
sexy or stuffy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/npr-suspends-business-editor.html
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:38 (two months ago) link
A longtime (now former) NPR staffer responds to the Berliner piece:https://slate.com/business/2024/04/npr-diversity-public-broadcasting-radio.html
She acknowledges that NPR is an "organizational shit show," but not because of wokeness:
"And that’s what the core editorial problem at NPR is and, frankly, has long been: an abundance of caution that often crossed the border to cowardice. NPR culture encouraged an editorial fixation on finding the exact middle point of the elite political and social thought, planting a flag there, and calling it objectivity."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:29 (one month ago) link
i just read this linked on the political thread about PBS's Buckley doc.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-17-an-implausible-mr-buckley/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
"caution that often crossed the border to cowardice" is a good description of that doc apparently. though i haven't seen it because ugh i was just glad when he finally died i don't need to watch a doc about him.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:34 (one month ago) link
one of my closest friends worked at WHYY for several years (and for many more years before that at KQED) and that slate article could have been written by him, it absolutely tracks a lot of the complaints he had about working in public media.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
the final paragraph is the kicker: "I guess that’s why I think Uri is most wrong about NPR’s relationship with the rest of the country. It’s a very accurate reflection of America right now, a place where people won’t admit that good intentions don’t always yield good results, and would rather hide behind the myth of its excellence than do the hard work of making it a reality."
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:31 (one month ago) link
looks like that dude resigned
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
yes he'll be whining about being cancelled on podcasts along with Taibbi and other dummies soon
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
Berliner seems like basically a newsroom crank, which every newsroom I've worked in had at least one of and often more.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:47 (one month ago) link