When NPR moved their Weekend All Things Considered (Saturday and
Sunday) production from DC to Culver City, California, I knew
something was afoot. They put Rachel Martin on as Sunday host, who
is doubly painful to listen to as she presents so much 'fluff' and
not much news for an hour. NPR News has fallen far over the decades.
It's also noteworthy that NPR successfully lobbied the FCC in the
late 70's to phase out low-power "Class D"
school/university/community FM broadcasting (established in 1938) so
NPR could grab those 20 "reserved band" spectrum channels from 88.1
to 91.9 MHz for its own growing network. NPR did great harm to
diverse community radio across U.S. and replaced much of it with
their cookie-cutter and now mind-numbing programming.
-Ed Cummings
At 09:18 AM 4/12/2016, Fred Zalupski wrote:
Thomas,
Good post.
In my opinion, the program content and presentation is stupefying dull.
Agree entirely. They used to be the best domestic news reportage on
radio. After they purposefully "restyled" themselves and let go of
Bob Edwards there was a steady spiral toward "fluffy" content. They
lost me as a listener years ago. (Not that Edwards was the sole
keeper of the flame, but it was for me the start of the end.)
And Richard's comment,
no longer do we hear Baxter Black, cowboy poet / large animal
veterinarian, nor Andrei Kondrescu...
Wow, Rich, I'd forgotten about them. Liked them a lot, too.
On 4/11/2016 1:09 PM, Thomas Sundstrom wrote:
In my opinion, the program content and presentation is stupefying dull.
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