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That one program where they interview the regional outreach coordinator for the [insert terrible backronym] coalition and discuss all the problems they will not be solving because the dialogue and the conversation and the narrative don't line up with the conversation's dialogue narrative, not to mention the narrative's dialogue conversation. I think I can referee the PHC fight. As a fan from early on, I have to admit that it has been listless, low energy, and phoned in for about a decade. People get old. There's simply no comparison between a show from 1995 and one from 2015. The pacing, the timing, everything is off. Still, I'm not aware of a better storyteller than GK, especially when he was in top form. If you're judging the show based solely on episodes of recent years, I have to agree. Wait Wait isn't completely terrible, but there must be half a dozen knockoffs that air on Saturday, and their panelists/comedians are not very good at paneling or comedying. Marv Hushman fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 06:54
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Since trump won, morning edition has been yet another platform for right wing talking heads to spew bullshit unchallenged. I mean if they have a panel it'll be like one neocon and one Nazi, with the host softballing them
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In one episode of WWDTM Peter Sagal was asked by an audience member if, growing up, he was the class clown or the class "brain." PS's response was that he was the class "crane", and the whole live audience laughed. They all laughed.
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Before there was Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me there was "Whad'ya Know?" which was the same show except somehow even worse. Instead of a panel of hosts they just had one really unfunny middle aged white guy from Wisconsin and even the audience didn't laugh at his jokes half the time. Radio Lab is the worst show for having interesting sounding content made unlistenable by the presentation If local public radio shows count, the station where I grew up used to have a local "news" show which consisted only of leaving the mic on at charity dinners where the mic picked up people clinking their plates/glasses better than the people giving dull speeches. It was cancelled when the host (who just came on in the first 30 seconds to announce the program named after him) died of heart disease Item Getter fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 07:37
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Public radio in my neck of the woods is more like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FyDF2wllSc
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Jun 2, 2017 07:44
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NPR was amazing for most of my life and now I switch to it, 1/10th of the time there is an amazing classical piece playing, 9/10ths of the time there's a woman giving a speech on her race in the victim olympics and I yell at the radio and mash the button They're about three Trump segments a day from competing with Stephen Colbert on "the same joke every single five minutes that anyone could write" Reminds me of when Hitchens explained that George Bush jokes became a way to actually empower George Bush, if someone tells you the same half assed joke every five minutes you'll eventually agree the president is an idiot and in a way absolve him of the crimes he should be punished for as an adult, or you might even like the loving rear end in a top hat just from reflecting on how unfunny and overpaid his TV opponents are
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Jun 2, 2017 09:21
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It's either the quiz show where the guests have a multiple choice test on really obscure words or the one where the host is always interviewing authors of books no one will ever read. Those or Diane Rheem.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:31
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extra stout posted:NPR was amazing for most of my life and now I switch to it, 1/10th of the time there is an amazing classical piece playing, 9/10ths of the time there's a woman giving a speech on her race in the victim olympics and I yell at the radio and mash the button Maybe your affiliate just sucks. Plenty of room over on WNPR if you wanna hear about the disastrous state of Connecticut's budget.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:39
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vatican radio is just dull
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Jun 2, 2017 09:40
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Item Getter posted:
Yeah the worst part of Radio Lab or TED Radio Hour is the way so many terrible podcasts and shows mimic their precocious format. Where a 2-5 minute segment of an expert talking or someone telling a story gets stretched into 15-30 by lovely reporters and the host having time outs to gush enthusiastically and (hopefully) pretend they need the topic dumbed down for them, so explain it in a really shity metaphor and oversimplification and then gush for a few minutes about how cool that is. Local shows: I'll throw in "Take Two" from KPCC. It's like the NPR equivalent of "The wacky fluff newsshow for dummies" local stations like Fox put on from 8-10 after the real morning news ends. 0 depth, 0 analysis and lovely gushing about dumb pet hobbies and interests of some of the in house reporters/plugs for their various podcasts and blogs. The best part though is why it's called "Take two" Short version: It's a dig at the station's former rising star reporter who was given a show in that slot then quit the station. Long version: She was given a show and free reign to report on whatever she wanted, it had decent reporting and some depth, but was all WASPy mom poo poo no one else cared about. So to try and boost ratings they demanded she give equal billing to some ESPN washout to talk about stuff only a WASPy dad would care about. She protested because he was a poo poo journalist and left the station. The show is now "Take Two," since it's the second attempt at the format/show. The host is such a bad journalist and dumb-dumb they went from a two hour show airing twice a day to an hour aired once, because they have trouble padding it even with other reporters from the network coming on to preview what'll be on their shows that day. The station can't fire him/cancel the show though because it would be admitting they hosed up.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:51
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The one where they don't have shows and just beg for money for a week
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Jun 2, 2017 10:43
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Vinyl Cafe, but I don't know if it airs anywhere outside of Canada anymore. Also Marketplace and TED Radio Hour.
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Jun 2, 2017 11:47
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VideoTapir posted:Since trump won, morning edition has been yet another platform for right wing talking heads to spew bullshit unchallenged. I mean if they have a panel it'll be like one neocon and one Nazi, with the host softballing them
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Jun 2, 2017 11:48
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I don't know if it counts as radio, but Invisibilia is shockingly bad. The hosts talk in slow, condescending voices as if they're speaking to children, and the content is so shallow and simplistic that is frequently misleading.
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Jun 2, 2017 13:30
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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Half the show is just promoting his podcast network and all interstitials are people he's had call in to tell him how great he is. He makes every interview about him and his own personal experiences. So sycophantic.
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Jun 2, 2017 13:46
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Smythe posted:the worst show on npr is On Being, formerly known as Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett This. Followed by the Splendid Table, Travel with Rick Steves, and loving 90% of Prairie Home Companion. PHC has some good skits and music sometimes, but a lot of the rest of it is pretty irritating. gently caress On Being though for normalizing dumb poo poo. Wait Wait Dont Tell me owns though. Oh, when the Capital Steps come up, its timr to rip out the radio but thankfully thats like once a year
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Jun 2, 2017 14:09
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extra stout posted:NPR was amazing for most of my life and now I switch to it, 1/10th of the time there is an amazing classical piece playing, 9/10ths of the time there's a woman giving a speech on her race in the victim olympics and I yell at the radio and mash the button None of this is actually true and NPR is pretty much the same as it always was before Trump was on the political scene.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:21
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:None of this is actually true and NPR is pretty much the same as it always was before Trump was on the political scene.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:24
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Why does Marketplace Guy say "this is Marketplace" the way he does.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:33
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Crash_N_Burn posted:That sounds awful. Do you at least put a little music on when you're cruising down the highway? No. I don't even have any radio stations programmed.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:34
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FactsAreUseless posted:You're talking to someone who used the phrase "victim olympics." Right, but I may as well clarify that NPR is 98% identical in its investigative journalism, interviews, or discussion style prior to Trump becoming president for everyone else who isn't delusional as hell.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:36
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About two years ago I was listening to the local member station and they were promoting a local young author. Her book was about how her grandfather was a nazi and she is a jew, so if she had met her grandfather he surely would have killed her. Thats when I stopped listening to radio and now drive to and from work in silence.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:37
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SPACE HOMOS posted:About two years ago I was listening to the local member station and they were promoting a local young author. Her book was about how her grandfather was a nazi and she is a jew, so if she had met her grandfather he surely would have killed her. Thats when I stopped listening to radio and now drive to and from work in silence. idgi
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Jun 2, 2017 14:39
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Smythe posted:i dont think a high school class could produce a high quality hour long radio show every week for 26 years and ira flatows huge pile of awards tells me that your opinion of him is in the minority. just my 2c counterpoint: listen to him stumble through awkward interview after awkward interview. it's bush league. i bet he's good at putting the shows together but he should not be the frontman.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:44
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it honestly blows my mind people still listen to radio in this day and age so all of them
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Jun 2, 2017 14:45
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Smythe posted:i dont think a high school class could produce a high quality hour long radio show every week for 26 years and ira flatows huge pile of awards tells me that your opinion of him is in the minority. just my 2c also, am I missing something or are basically none of those awards for being good at interviewing people. though TIL that he was the host of newton's apple, which I liked a lot as a kid, but I had forgotten who hosted it. The thing is, he didn't have to interview people, which is what he is so terrible at, that it makes his show the worst.
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Julius CSAR posted:Also listening to them try to sports reporting is just amazing Hearing the Seattle station mention cornerback Russell Wilson is always a treat.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:53
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You know what's real good, though, is The Big Broadcast where they play like 4 hours of old radio stuff from the 30s, 40s, and 50s (Johnny Dollar, Dragnet, Abbot and Costello, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Bob Hope). http://wamu.org/show/the-big-broadcast/ Used to be hosted by Ed Walker for over 20 years. He died three hours after his farewell show was broadcast. That's synchronization.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:55
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SPACE HOMOS posted:About two years ago I was listening to the local member station and they were promoting a local young author. Her book was about how her grandfather was a nazi and she is a jew, so if she had met her grandfather he surely would have killed her. Thats when I stopped listening to radio and now drive to and from work in silence. That's legit interesting and thought-provoking though. I don't get your objection. 
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Jun 2, 2017 14:57
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What do you know with Micheal Feldman. Also On Being
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No. 6 posted:Car Talk was poo poo gently caress off bitch Anyway the worst show is the peoples pharmacy
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Jun 2, 2017 15:01
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Volcott posted:The Food Schmooze with Faith Middleton. Well maybe if you were Tommy and had some salami you'd like it. The correct answer in my experience is of course Prairie Home Companion.
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Jun 2, 2017 15:33
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PHC at least has competent musicians on, even if they're not your style. The "funny" shows like Wait Wait don't even have that.
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Jun 2, 2017 15:37
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Wife and I went to a taping of Wait, Wait years ago in Chicago, it was pretty fun. We went to a Garisson Keillor solo thing and both fell asleep. It was real bad.
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Jun 2, 2017 15:45
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"Za wauh wuh wuah!" - peter sagal
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Jun 2, 2017 16:07
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FactsAreUseless posted:PHC at least has competent musicians on, even if they're not your style. The "funny" shows like Wait Wait don't even have that. you can have an old man create your voicemail greeting
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Jun 2, 2017 16:26
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Anything with Lois Reitzes is both the best and the worst, due to her incredibly strange voice that makes her sound like she is on her deathbed at all times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawxWR5O9ms
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Jun 2, 2017 16:30
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Volcott posted:Why does Marketplace Guy say "this is Marketplace" the way he does. Because he's a terrible caricature of himself.
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I hate Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me because they frequently have Paula Poundstone on, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't she a kiddie diddler?
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