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FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

*drinks*

# ¿ May 6, 2019 06:23

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:11

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:

its been about a decade since the day the electric company shut off our delinquent power during a visit from ladysmith black mumbazzo. the tiny desk concert remains one the longest and most transparent coverups in public broadcasting history

There's actually just a big embarrassing stain under the tiny desk, and they have to keep holding these concerts so nobody finds out, in case Steve Inskeep yells at them again.

# ¿ May 6, 2019 07:11

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:

are we talking about the guy who did On Point or the guy who did PHC? or how bout the CBC guy who liked the choke women during and not during sex?

I don't recall the On Point story. They were talking about Keillor from PHC. The CBC guy was Jian Ghomeshi from the show Q, who is long since fired.

Public radio, like most media organizations right now, has serious problems with sexual harassment, a stagnant administrative culture, and a lack of advancement. They're going to be in real trouble in 20 years when they realize that every editor, supervisor, and recognizable voice at NPR is now 80+ years old.

# ¿ May 6, 2019 21:15

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

ElectricSheep posted:

an effeminate Sylvester the Cat

# ¿ May 6, 2019 21:16

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Troy Queef posted:

well considering that national NPR already has filled their quota of white Papists with Sylvia Poggioli, you can just go ahead and assume he's not Irish

and while Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is a great NPR name, don't sleep on Soraya Sarhaddi-Nelson

Imagine saying "Papist" in 2019.

# ¿ May 6, 2019 22:16

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Coolness Averted posted:

also how funny is it that over the past decade NPR has slid fully into 'underwriting' that includes full on ad copy for products?

Fun fact, the legal requirement for underwriting is just that it not contain a call to action. You can say "Joe's Food: The Best Food There Is," but not "Eat At Joe's."

# ¿ May 7, 2019 00:05

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

FilthyImp posted:

*sounds of railways*
The sounds you are hearing are sounds that I've always known. It's the sound of trains, crucial for travel and commerce, sounds of a healthy community.

*sounds of forks clanking, plates, etc*
But lately, the folks of Heels Flat, Missipetucky have been hearing other sounds. Sounds that maybe suggest that things aren't as rosy as their 15% unemployment statistics may suggest.

*Sounds of: people chatting, vague racial slurs and "those people" can be discerned*
*Speaking: Hosiah Reynolds>> "Been livin here all my life, since I done moved here when I was 46. Things I'm hearin' now. . . well it just gets you thinking bout those kinds of people, you know. Sometimes... sometimes you just don't know"

Reynolds, now 49, credits a host of social ills on a new phenomenon. Where there were the sounds of trains, now Heels Flat hears... something new.

*a distant noise comes under the train, gradually increasing in volume until the song is clear and loud*

A new train operated by a colorful, Spanish speaking, conductor is causing waves. Some locals call it the Beanertown Express... and it's tearing the once-homogenous township apart with allegations..... .. .... of racism.

# ¿ May 7, 2019 00:10

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Coolness Averted posted:

oh wow that explains a lot about how they phrase those, and can list off the exact movie opening that weekend, or that they want you to watch but just don't use the words "go see this"

It's legit weird as poo poo, and it's only a broadcast law so NPR runs real ads on their site

# ¿ May 7, 2019 00:57

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Bad Titty Puker posted:

oh poo poo it's time for the fundraising drive on the local NPR affiliate??!

Whenever the pledge drive is off the air, the audience should be asking: hey, where's the pledge drive?

# ¿ May 7, 2019 07:44

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

FilthyImp posted:

"It's not just something you can scribble on the back of a cocktail napkin", he added."

I Like This Joke!

# ¿ May 8, 2019 00:29

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Xaris posted:

tbf i dont think your average coked up trucker is listening to NPR

You'd be surprised. NPR member stations put towers in rural areas that wouldn't be profitable for private enterprise. We had a few trucker donors because when you're driving across the country NPR is often the most reliably available radio.

# ¿ May 10, 2019 06:35

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Code Jockey posted:

I do like that KUOW broadcasts LA Theater Works on weekend evenings though, I visit family on the weekends a lot and I love listening to the plays on that long rear end drive

Public radio's arts and culture stuff is so much better than their news coverage.

# ¿ May 10, 2019 07:19

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Coolness Averted posted:

we're not mad, just dissapointed

This is my precise relationship with public radio

# ¿ May 11, 2019 03:21

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

morally adept posted:

Sound opinions is the only NPR program I actually like. I still end up listening to my affiliate station regularly because everything else is i heart radio garbage and I love infuriating myself. Centrist propaganda is the worst because it's less overt, smugly self assured, and above all boring. Also I want to garrote the loving host of the ted radio hour.

Again going to recommend Selected Shorts and Snap Judgement. Just avoid NPR's news and politics coverage because they have great shows dedicated to arts and culture.

# ¿ May 18, 2019 20:53

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

This is NPR and we've been here since 1 am. Please help.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2019 06:08

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

poisonpill posted:

Before we get back to more posts, please take a minute to consider donating to Lotax� new spine fund. Just five dollars per month can help bring you more of the posts you love

You're incredibly smart for giving. Smart and beautiful. But some of you haven't given. And you're monsters. Smart, beautiful, twisted, terrible monsters. Please give or else we will have to do this pledge drive forever.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

The reason he had to keep chasing down exotic dog food, eventually landing on kangaroo, is the dog developed allergies to every other protein source.

I can't think of a lot of clearer ways to signal to my owner that I'm ready to die than developing an allergy to all non-kangaroo proteins.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 14:21

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

veni veni veni posted:

I like when nasally white women on NPR bust into thick accents to say a single word. It's like my mom in a mexican/chinese restaurant except it makes my mom sound racist and these ladies sound woke for some reason.

It's because they're frequently not white, just very trained to speak in the NPR style

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 03:28

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

NPR has a lot of diversity issues because journalism has them but the thing I always admired most about public radio was its willingness to put people of color and women on the air. Shame that's not true in the newsrooms and the offices.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 03:29

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

dpush posted:

Today on NPR a retarded sjw gets pissed off about the word crazy, and it turns out that if you are a criminal the police might be able to tell by looking at your drivers license.

Im Nadthaniel Normandy-StinkFlea for Narcissistic Panhandler Radio.

This post says a lot more about you than you think.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2019 23:23

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

MarcusSA posted:

This is the future we deserve.

One in which public radio reviews plays?

# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 18:23

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

kickascii posted:

On a recent radiolab one of the hosts used an expression I've never heard before. They were talking about analyzing Albert Einstein's brain, and considered the possibility that maybe his brain had something unusual or unique about it and that could have affected his intelligence. Confronted with this possibility, the host said that it "made him feel itchy."

I've heard this a few times from people IRL, and I wonder if it might be regional or some sort of very narrowly-learned generational slang. I think most people now would say it makes them feel "gross" instead of itchy.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 20:58

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

pseudanonymous posted:

I always assumed she was sick or something in the few seconds I ever caught her show before changing the station because whatever is going on with her voice was just so annoying. Did she really talk like that for 30 years?

No, she developed vocal polyps.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 21:14

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Pham Nuwen posted:

It's spasmodic dysphonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia

Oh, I could have sworn she had polyps removed.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2019 23:16

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

a cyberpunk goose posted:

https://twitter.com/npr/status/1153666835063148544?s=21

Look at this loving headline lmao

# ¿ Jul 24, 2019 04:54

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Oh my god I'm so loving glad I'm gone lmao

# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 10:50

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Somfin posted:

How bad was it when you were there, FAU?

We were nowhere near the decision making on this sort of thing, and I liked the people I worked with. We definitely had some arguments about poo poo like this though.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2019 06:40

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Screaming Idiot posted:

they're wallpapering the fact they shill for parasites on the reg, op

This isn't inaccurate, but it's not necessarily the same people making both decisions. Like with any media outfit, there's a lot of push and pull on what gets published. And right now it's extra sensitive because a lot of people in the industry aren't happy with their jobs or their publications. NPR isn't any different. It's one of the reasons I left journalism in general. I got exhausted of fighting.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 06:31

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Screaming Idiot posted:

Big media is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the parasitic classes.

If a thing can be made to make money it will do so and in such a way as to maximize the collateral damage it creates so as to prevent others from benefiting. It's the same reason grocery store owners will throw away edible food and pour bleach over it to keep the poor from getting it.

Yes, that's true. But it's also very broad, and I think it's important to understand how the day-to-day decisions get made. Those decisions are also effects of capitalism, and the more we understand the process the better we can deal with it. If socialism on a large scale in the US is going to happen, these are the kinds of things that are going to be a big part of the transition. We need to understand what infrastructure capitalism has built, how we can use it, and where the needs of capitalism held it back.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 07:58

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Forceholy posted:

Allberto San Felipe - Fritz

drat, that's good

# ¿ Sep 17, 2019 19:39

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