Why is NPR so effing bad sometimes?

i assume most places have local programs like that on their npr affiliate?

xps yeah car talk ended in 2012. i love it and will always happily listen but it's depressing that many (most?) npr stations devote weekend primetime hours to the reruns.

Wait what the hell? How do I still get new episodes on iTunes every week

you're getting the reruns.

This is a terrible day. Terrible, terrible day

I listened to a lot of Diane Rehm after Dan Patrick left ESPN Radio, but I can't do it anymore - I just want her (or one of her guests) to call out the hacks and shills she has on 40% of the time. Nodding and going "fair enough" to oil lobbyists and conservative wackjobs kills me.

My local station has an early afternoon interview program called Think that I'll take over any of the national NPR shows - since they only get people travelling through the area (or willing to do a phone interview) the guests are more interesting than the usual tasteful subjects.

think out loud?

http://www.kera.org/think/

you probably have just listened to the same car talk 100s of times over and over again, it's so inane you didn't notice

xp ah the "early afternoon interview program" here is think out loud. it's good too.

http://mspmag.com/Out-And-About/Articles/Features/Season-of-the-Wits/

steve marsh considers the NPR JV team

have to say i find the show in question p much laugh-devoid

jeezus, WNYC's hourly slogan "Just keep listening" (wow, THAT was worth however many months the marketing dept spent thinking it up) is pronounced by an unidentified Scarlett Johansson. I guess some people really did like that Her movie.

I'm sure she had her agent send a DVD of Her over when she auditioned for the gig.

I've come around and like Zoe Chase now. Something softened in me and I now find her delivery endearing. Now I can't stand John Hockenberry and The Takeaway. Maybe it's because he sounds so much like Colbert that it makes it sound like he's taking the piss constantly, about any subject, serious or not. Difficult to sit through.

On a different note, still gutted at Bob Parlocha's death. Those will be hard shoes to fill. They still play the show through the night here, but I wonder how long that will last. Sigh.

next slogan: "shut up and listen"

Popes, Supreme Court Judges & NPR Hosts.

The apparently lifetime appointment of Scott "The Fighting Quaker" Simon is reason enough to despise NPR. Even George Orwell didn't see this sensitive voiced slaughter apologist coming.

"There Are People Under Those Bombs," his Weekend Edition editorial from March 2003 explained - sounds like a sensitive title, right? - why it was more humane for people in Baghdad to die by bombing. Listen if you dare. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1242591

Compared to Fox News outright bloodlust, I find Simon's nuanced explanation far more sinister. As he soothingly says, "Humane and bombing may sound incongruous in the same sentence, but the United States and United Kingdom have said that it is possible to wage war against a bad regime for the sake of innocent people. The bombing we watch is a target of opportunity to demonstrate that they value the lives of innocent civilians as much as those of Iraqi commanders they seek to shock and awe into surrender."

"a target of opportunity." Guy saw the bright side of everything, you know?

But those were idealistic days. What did Scott learn in ten years?

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/07/219702819/when-weighing-intervention-in-syria-consider-the-children

The media push for war in Syria a couple years ago --- it didn't work & so was quickly forgotten --- will likely get somewhat more scrutiny now that an amazing story has hit the mass media:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2015/04/16/nbc-engel-kidnapping/25878771/