steve inskeep shows up at your party at 5:30 pm before you even get home from work, talks to you non-stop for the next two hours as you scramble with preparations, and then leaves the party at 8:45pm because he has to get up super early the next morning
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
oh shit i'm steve
― mh, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
NPR HR graciously covers the Jaws Of Life rental fee required for all Steve's dental visits
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
One of my youtube habits is to go through random "Tiny Desk Concerts" videos, and I'm shocked at how awful the vast majority of them are. I don't think the people selecting these bands have any taste at all, they just want stuff that superficially has that cloying "Tiny Desk" aesthetic, and occasionally this formula accidentally results in a great performance by a great band. Or maybe it's just that most bands suck, in general.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, October 9, 2017 11:58 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like i once argued this to you on here, to a rebuttal of 'theyre just high qual live recordings bruv'. i feel vindicated now thank u
― flopson, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
ha! that sounds very plausible. I mean the sound quality of the recording is very nice imo, just the curation is terrible.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
But then again it looks like they do at least one per week, so I guess I can't totally fault them for not having 50+ good artists per year.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
lol there was a recent one by a band called The Oh Hellos. Perfect.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
Blind PilotOctober 21, 2016 • The band's shimmery folk-pop sound, with its vibraphone and overarching vibrancy, is perfectly suited to the space behind Bob Boilen's desk.
The Secret SistersSeptember 12, 2016 • The Alabama sibling duo's music can be hymn-like: plain but powerful, heartsick and hopeful. Watch The Secret Sisters perform a river ballad, a hymn and a song capturing some old-fashioned loneliness.
Oh god please no
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
car talk is actually good though
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
i kinda don't mind steve inskeep. when he was temporarily replaced by mary whatever i really hated that bc her voice is so annoying like really bad annoying and i don't like how she says the letter S
― assawoman bay (harbl), Monday, 9 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
mary louise kelly, hate her
NPR repeatedly referred to Ocasio-Cortez as wanting to abolish the "Federal Immigration Agency" this morning, instead of abolishing ICE. There is no such agency as the Federal Immigration Agency, there are like six different agencies that deal with immigration. ICE is just the police state wing.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
keep thinking that, sheeple
― rehab hot (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
"Coming up, the puzzle with Will Shortz and an interview with Cathy Guisewhite!" I don't think I've ever turned anything off so fast.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
If you take the name of Cathy's boyfriend and rearrange the letters, you end up with this word that perfectly describes Will Shortz. What is it?
― del griffith, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
I can't help but be a little fascinated by Will because of his association with the world's greatest sport (table tennis). But it's almost comical how reluctant and low energy a presence he is on air
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
he might be the most npr person on npr
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
i was going to come to this thread to complain about on being with krista tippett. now that farmers' market season has returned i'm driving at 7:30 a.m. on sundays and she makes me want to drive into a wall mmm yeah
― forensic plumber (harbl), Monday, 15 April 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
i've seen people mock her by calling her 'christian tidbit' lol
weekend NPR is the absolute worst with car talk being the only exception
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 15 April 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
wait wait dont tell me is p good but theres a show called "ask me another" and it might be worse than prarie home companion, yikes
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Monday, 15 April 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
oh god that one is horrible. it has that particular self-satisfied npr sense of humor. you know the people they play around fundraising time, regular people they have recorded talking about how they love npr. so proud of themselves, for nothing.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Monday, 15 April 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
onnnnn beinggggg
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 April 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link
wait wait don't tell me is awful, the panelists think they're 10x funnier than they actually are
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
When I graduated many, many years ago, my sweet mother gifted me a multi-volume CD box set of many, many hours of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. She knew I listened to NPR, and I guess I must've mentioned that I sometimes listened to Wait Wait on Saturday mornings, but I guess I didn't make it clear that my listening was entirely passive and my appreciation of it mostly ironic. Anyway, it was very sweet of her and so that's why I waited a few months before placing it directly into the trash can. I like to think that a few days later a 75 year old white liberal dumpster diver's day had been made.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
man I listened to All Things Considered this evening and almost turned it off, the reporters were so terrible (this was after suffering through fucking kai ryssdal's marketplace, why is this still on?). There was a back and forth between host and reporter and the reporter was clearly reading written responses in a completely flat, inflectionless tone, and also sounded like she was in junior high. Asking someone I know who works with NPR what the deal is he simply said "you get what you pay for"
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:32 (eight months ago) link
I get irritated at NPR more than I used to but i haven’t been able to tell if it’s worse than it used to be or I just have less patience with middlebrow milquetoast journalism than I used to.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:53 (eight months ago) link
i'd welcome middlebrow milquetoast journalism, it's the barely coherent junior-high level reading of something prewritten and pretending it's an off the cuff conversation that made me cringe.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 01:55 (eight months ago) link
I stopped listening after they became a PR machine for Iraq War II in 2003, and it seems like I haven’t missed anything.
― beamish13, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:16 (eight months ago) link
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:24 (eight months ago) link
xxxxp years ago when my wife and i were listening to npr and marketplace started and it got to that part where kai does his "this... is marketplace" intro and she just says "there is no way that guy doesn't have skeletons in his closet."
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 18 August 2023 02:25 (eight months ago) link
ATL has a strong NPR station, there is tons of very relevant and well-done local programming.
But yeah, the national stuff is mostly shit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:33 (eight months ago) link
i'm here for On the Media and basically nothing else; you can read my scathing criticisms on the other thread
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:21 (eight months ago) link
...where it appears we all had a version of this same conversation
Is it fashionable to dislike NPR?
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:32 (eight months ago) link
I got very attached to WNYC when I lived in New York and I still listen to some of their daytime programming, Brian Lehrer etc. And On the Media is still good, it survived its tumult. But yeah the actual NPR stuff feels pretty flimsy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 August 2023 04:33 (eight months ago) link
when is somebody going to finally take Scott Simon off to the glue factory??
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 January 2024 14:21 (three months ago) link
why, is there a major labor law violation taking place at the-- ohhhhhhhhhh
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 13 January 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
Idk anything about that actually, just listening to him this morning and can’t believe how bad he is
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:47 (three months ago) link
Yeah I stopped listening on Saturdays years ago. Can’t take him.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:07 (three months ago) link
omfg his laughit's criminally annoyingi also can't stand the way he thinks it's funny to refer to bj liedermanor the way he refers to Ayesha Rascoe as Ayesha
she has a surname, sir!!
he needs to go. i dislike almost all the lighthearted NPR content but i do listen for loca news bc there is nowhere else that does investigative local journalism to that depth.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:45 (three months ago) link
HA! HA! HA! HA!
--Scott Simon
*LOCAL news
oh also i heard him "interview" a guy from slowdive and he asked the most asinine questions like
"what is it like to make an album today?""what is shoegaze?"
someone please retire this man
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:48 (three months ago) link
Wordle-playing!!
Senior NPR editor claims public broadcaster lacks ‘viewpoint diversity’In the piece on Free Press, a site run by Bari Weiss, a former opinion editor at the New York Times, Berliner noted that in 2011 the public broadcaster’s audience identified as 26% conservative, 23% as middle of the road and 37% liberal. Last year it identified as 11% very or somewhat conservative, 21% as middle of the road, and 67% very or somewhat liberal.
“We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals,” Berliner wrote, and described a new listener stereotype: “EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:58 (one week ago) link
I thought NPR's own coverage of that was pretty good: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity
NPR is in that funny category with the NYT where conservatives think they're woke commies and leftists think they're squishy-lib corporate apologists.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:13 (one week ago) link
'Wait Wait' openly mocks Trump nearly every week
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:25 (one week ago) link
The horror! I'd call On the Media pretty left-leaning overall too. But obv Berliner was talking about NPR's core news coverage, not those kinds of shows.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link
I blame the end of Car Talk for the exodus of libertarians & neocons from the NPR listening base.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:39 (one week ago) link
they need to get Robert Davi or Jim Caveziel on The Treatment
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:47 (one week ago) link
I would think all traditional news organizations have lost a lot of conservative viewership/listenership/readership since 2011, it’s hard to look at this as an NPR phenomenon. It’s all part of the conservative think tank playbook- paint the traditional media as liberal/woke, driving conservatives to stop following it, then sit back and watch as the media outlets fall all over themselves to shift rightward to get them back. Thus shifting the national discourse and eventually public opinion toward the right.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:47 (one week ago) link