Monday, April 02, 2007

Open Thread - Monday

NPR related comments welcomed.
Posted by Mytwords at 4:55 AM
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Someone recorded NPR's cute April Fool's joke:

http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/misc/NPR.mp3

And in other news . . .

4/2/07, 5:45 PM
Anonymous said...

I was too sick to change the radio station on Sunday. This link only got me to a promo. Please, if there is mercy in this universe, tell me it was the excrutiating piece on indigeneous sculpture.

NPR -- yet another reason for gun control.

4/3/07, 8:25 AM
Porter Melmoth said...

It's truly breathtaking how NPR can get worse, even day by day. On ME, Steverino's continuing his precious little joke of inter-cutting (quite clumsily) Motown hits with progress reports on presidential candidates' fundraising. The results are so astoundingly bad, that it's not even worth mentioning. So I won't. The trivialization of sound bytes is so abused by NPR that someone should keep a running podcast of them: like Cheryl Corley reporting from Chicago and referring to the El - cue train sound for 2 seconds. I even heard a report about film grosses (formerly the province of 'Variety' and now corporately-important enough to be worthy of NPR's shareholder-concerned listeners) in which a rinkidink reporter referred to the film '300' as 'the PERSIAN War film'. As in IRAN. As in bad, bad, bad IRAN. As in, those Persian - I mean, IRANIAN barbarians who are holding 15 innocent British sailors against their will. As in - Oh hell, the insidiousness, the insidiousness...

4/3/07, 10:59 AM

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