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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:24 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link