NPR - stuffy or sexy?

(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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFivQYjC-Q

Who can save us from the Diane Rehm zombie menace?

Currently running through about 2 Radiolabs per day.

A fantastic piece on the organization, especially on the Juan Williams brouhaha. Also bits like:

The editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, once confessed to former NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin that he really didn’t believe NPR was liberal; he just said so “to keep you guys on the defensive.”

Hey look, it's Brooklyn Home Companion:
http://www.wnyc.org/press/kingscounty/

Just pulling this up 'cus of a thing on skot's FB. Interested in the new (maybe) slightly more central (maybe) place NPR has in pop culture; like how it's sort of an Apple-ish boutique brand of news. In my childhood, I remember it as a stuffy ol' bastion of the gentry – Lawrence Welk, Robert J Lurtsema, BBC World Service. Now, though, it seems to be a widely-acknowledged signifier of a social/politicical ideology incrementally left of center – but only in the way that doesn't raise ripples. The Starbucks-Intellegencia Tribune. Or ... maybe this is just my station, my perception, my baggage? Curious, though, about other perceptions of it.