tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post461936826449174224..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Open Thread - MondayMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-42889279450294399782007-04-03T10:59:00.000-05:002007-04-03T10:59:00.000-05:00It's truly breathtaking how NPR can get worse, eve...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...Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-83795261541366972632007-04-03T08:25:00.000-05:002007-04-03T08:25:00.000-05:00I was too sick to change the radio station on Sund...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.<BR/><BR/>NPR -- yet another reason for gun control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-4872128944298271982007-04-02T17:45:00.000-05:002007-04-02T17:45:00.000-05:00Someone recorded NPR's cute April Fool's joke:http...Someone recorded NPR's cute April Fool's joke:<BR/><BR/>http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/misc/NPR.mp3<BR/><BR/>And in other news . . .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13213026170936751229noreply@blogger.com