Listening to NPR is painful

[wt1531]

From hosts that try hard to make Romney look competitive (against all evidence to the contrary), to reporters that want to sound so dramatic instead of just reporting the news. Can't spell her name but their noon time/1pm news reader, Lakeme Shmith (sp??_) is really horrible because she tries to sound dramatic about every news piece...she even pauses between words in a sentence to make herself sound so special. Whatever hppened to just reading the news??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. NPR is apparently so desperate to keep their funding

that they have completely caved in to the GOPers.

[Hissyspit]

2. Lakshmi Singh

Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of prosperity, fortune, and beauty.

[Anthony McCarthy]

3. Don't contribute, kill NPR

NPR should be dissolved and its assets, which don't include it's stable of "reporters" and the cranberry crap, should be turned over to a real public radio network. Oh, except the building, that should be sold. NO reliable news organization is likely to remain reliable in The Village. Set it up in some little thought of mid-western city where the employees are likely to meet real people.

[Chiquitita]

13. Nah -- I don't agree with advocating "killing" anything

I heartily disagree with your post, even though I think the OP has a point. The distancing between criticizing NPR and advocating for its demise is vast.

[Blue Idaho]

4. Nation rePublican Radio.

There are many things to like about NPR but their news division isn't one of them. They are totally in the bag for the Republican Party and they have been since the bush crime family installed conservatives in leadership positions.

I stopped listening a few years back.

[hedgehog]

5. I heard an NPR report this morning that Romney was "wistful."

[yellowcanine]

12. I heard the clip of him talking right before that. And they were right.

He was wistful sounding, which I took to be sounding like he knows he has lost. Obama, on the other hand, was fired up and sounding confident.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. While NPR has well over 100 radio shows available to your local station...

I note the tendency of certain people here to focus on one or two people they ascribe to be vaguely conservative or otherwise objectionable while completely ignoring the obviously nonconservative Diane Riehm or Terry Gross. The one or two possibly conservative people are, of course, reason to destroy the entire works.

On the Media, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Science Friday... All obviously Rovian plants to set us at ease before the big hammer falls and the two conservatives take over and we dimwittedly agree with everything they say because we don't know any better.

[Chorophyll]

10. I agree that lots of NPR shows are fantastic, and very much left-leaning.

BUT, the big news shows, like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, which are on during "drive time," have taken a considerable step to the middle, if not further right than that.

[Anthony McCarthy]

11. Diane Rehm

without whom Cato would almost never be heard from? Who reliably has on a 2-Republican, corporate hack on to one Brookings Prostitution Milquetoast?

On the Media and Saysyou are all well and good but much of what NPR carries are produced by other production companies. They could find a new home.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. Sell NPR to the medical industry for sleep therapy. nt

[agentS]

8. that's why I only listen to Science Friday- and their hip-hop music

[Chorophyll]

9. I think you mean Lakshmi Singh. She's always sounded like that. But,

you're right. NPR has jumped on the false equivalency bandwagon, and it's painful to listen to indeed. I blame the influx of their corporate overlords. I mean, corporate "underwriters."

[cheriemedium59]

14. I too have been very disappointed in NPR

Especially this election year. They do not give Pres. Obama any credit.
It's always about how well Romney is doing or it is tied. I turned it off
this morning.