― 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
-- gabbneb (gabbne...), May 6th, 2005.
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
No.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link
2 motherfucking times
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"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...
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
-- tremendoid (kemeti...), January 20th, 2007. (tremendoid)
I remember we had a lot of fun mocking these on another thread - can't remember where.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
looks like that dude resigned
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:44 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link