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What do you like on NPR?
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beachbumNC



Joined: 30 May 2007
Location: Gumi
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:49 am    Post subject: What do you like on NPR? Reply with quote
the talk show thread inspired me to make this one. i dig me some NPR.

i really like Here and Now with Robin Young.

but i'm also a big fan of Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! and Praire Home Companion.

any other NPR fans?
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Tony_Balony



Joined: 12 Apr 2007
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I enjoy NPR on occasion largely due to the low pressure speaking tone of the DJ's. I like Whadaya Know and the music reviews sometimes and PHC. Andre Codrescu(?) is good, I "tyre" of the Car Guys sometimes and NPR makes those awful cunning linguist jokes too often. I recommend Art Bell.

However, NPR is a Marxist Leninist mouthpiece and I like to tease them about it. If they get me really upset, I seek to have them shut down.
They seem to run a long trail of victim stories and I always know what Scott Simon and Daniel Schorr will say.

I actually went to the office one time in DC. I appreciate our public radio because they can do entertainment well - WUWM the local affiliate in Milwaukee used to have a really good jazz show.

Happy listening and give more money when they come around and panhandle next time.
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coler651



Joined: 24 Jul 2007
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
NPR is a pro-government progangist mouthpiece
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Love:
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Car Talk
This American Life
The Splendid Table
Whad'Ya Know?
all the daily and weekend news shows

Hate:
Prarie Home Companion
Only a Game

(I am aware that some of these shows are not NPR-produced.)

Love the podcasts so I can hear them at the correct time in Korea.
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Spanishnative



Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Seoul, South Korea
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I enjoy NPR. Since people tend to think it's either socialist or a government mouthpiece, I would say they are doing a decent job at being neutral. They give air time to many views. My favorite being a discussion between the differing world views of Christianity (Liberation Theology vs Evangelism in Latin America). I like the daily news personally but the music selection is great.
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yushin



Joined: 14 Oct 2006
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
why do all of the announcers have such terrible speaking voices? I mean all of them! They're supposed to be professional broadcasters after all...give me the BBC any day...
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
coler651 wrote:
NPR is a pro-government progangist mouthpiece


Laughing

Not bad, not bad..


I like just about all NPR programs. I like Kai Ryssdal and his bizarre voice. I could listen to Prairie Home every day. The one guy who reads the news briefs and overpronounces the H in words that begin with WH really makes my day. Ira Glass's show.

I will say this, though: I hate Terry Gross's show. Her voice grates on my ear drums and she asks banal questions like she's trying to challenge James Lipton to a celebrity ass licking contest. I almost wrecked my car vomiting two minutes into her interview with Jamie Foxx after he did that Ray Charles movie.
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SuperFly



Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like them all, used to listen to NPR nonstop back home...now I occaisionally get to the website and listen - but nothing like before.

Car talk is a great show.
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jaderedux2



Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: lurking just lurking
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
SuperFly wrote:
I like them all, used to listen to NPR nonstop back home...now I occaisionally get to the website and listen - but nothing like before.

Car talk is a great show.


yep CARTALK!

Michael Feldman

Talk of the Nation

Science Digest

All Things Considered

I really miss NPR. Used to have it on all day at work.

Jade
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davai!



Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Location: Kuwait
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is (was?) a cool Reggae show on Sunday afternoons. But I love the ads(?) that tell you if you eat the equivalent of like a grape a day, you will live to be 130 years old.

No thanks!
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So...what's on your MP3 player?
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