NPR - stuffy or sexy?

2 motherfucking times

"No."

see this is rilly mean, but i can't stand the cutesy local color old-tymer snippets they play here of salty cape cod folks remembering their favorite fish chowder recipes. they all have that dry as sand yankee voice and they drive me mad for some reason. the guy who runs our local station is the dude who did that THIS I BELIEVE essay series and he's really into oral. his catch-phrase is LISTEN and then he will play audio of seagulls fighting over a clam neck or something. in theory i should be all for this yokelism but it just makes me grit my teeth. same with the soothing tones of the cape cod naturalist who reads his essays about frolicing in the bramble bushes in purple poesy. i'm so jaded and mean...

-- tremendoid (kemeti...), January 20th, 2007. (tremendoid)

I remember we had a lot of fun mocking these on another thread - can't remember where.

Why is NPR so effing bad sometimes?

(also, ever watch lehrer's tv show on cuny tv? he's a funny-lookin guy, and he cuts loose with more opinionating there. he told saddam hussein to "burn in hell" after the execution.)

I would totally listen to a personal essay feature called "BELIE' DAT!"

Jo3l Rose is ruling today

i was on this huge bpp kick lately, but it's starting to get a little to much like "the view."

listening to NPR like two minutes ago and there's this kind of inane cell-phone technology puff piece on, and they get a caller. daniel, a contractor of some kind, is telling the anchor dude (neil?) in a weird broken-dieter accent that this new technology saves him from hours of driving a day, since he gets in touch with all of his sites via those walky-talky jobbies.
--- So, sir, you're in construction?
--- Ja, and the improved vibration settings are amaaazing, so you can always tell, you just drive around and it just fits so perfectly in your scheißer hole and (thanks for the feedback! cut to 'commercial')

someone tell me that i am not the only person who heard this

anyone??

o_O

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L~O~L

they publish transcripts, right?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=daniel+vibration+schei%C3%9Fer+&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://www.npr.org/transcripts/

Is this neil conan (sp?) talk of the nation?
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5

Ja, and the improved vibration settings are amaaazing, so you can always tell, you just drive around and it just fits so perfectly in your scheißer hole and

if this quote is real, and was on npr, i guess keeping the thread title in mind, the answer would be. . . stuffy??

Mobile Phones Do Much More Than Make Calls

with sexy results, etc etc

guys i swear to god this is what happened

is NPR covering the NYT story about excessive hugs giving kids lung cancer?

This Saturday, Daniel Schorr will tell Scott Simon about the time he was going to Good Vibrations, got confused, and wound up in an Apple Store instead.

like this idea of npr going for human interest and accidentally covering hardcore sexual fetishism

what's accidental about that?

scheißer hole

If this guy had an iPhone, what MP3s would be on it I wonder?

Samwell - "What What (In The Butt)"

"--- So, sir, you're in construction?
--- Ja, and the improved vibration settings are amaaazing, so you can always tell, you just drive around and it just fits so perfectly in your scheißer hole and (thanks for the feedback! cut to 'commercial')"

If you did not imagine this, they have rather seamlessly removed any hint of scheisser business from the online audio (and yet retained the bulk of the german guy's conversation as if he were a legit caller)

so... STUFFY! and... LIARS!

omg u r jokin right??????

i heard this!!!!

http://wcvarones.blogspot.com/2009/05/censorship-at-npr.html

“Ja! The vibrating strength on these new phones is sooo amazing! Ja, I mean, when you’re driving, you can stick one right in your scheisse-hole and stimulate the prostate very nicely.”

nice

if this happened on the BBC there would be a week-long furore followed by a government inquiry

vindicated!

Ok, this is WNYC, not NPR -- I know, I know, member station. But really these fucking Austria ads.

"WNYC is supported by Austria and her coffeehouses. Where you can plot a revolution, like Marx. Or discover the human psyche, like Freud." or whatever the fuck they say. Really.

Ebert gives it three cheers. Maybe more.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/11/everywhere_i_go_as_much.html

Everywhere I go, as much as I can, I listen to National Public Radio. It's an oasis of clear-headed intelligence. Carefully, patiently, it presents programming designed to make me feel just a little better equipped to reenter the world of uproar.

...We are interested in other peoples, other lifestyles, other choices. We do not demand that the media tell us over and over again the things we already believe. We are open to new ideas.

I vote sexy.

http://media.npr.org/about/people/bios/biophotos/jtarabay.jpg

Sexy. Cf: Ira Glass and his magical hands

I read this title as about NRO for 3 terrifying seconds.