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thenewgreen  ·  4650 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jay Rosen: NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right
Hey now, I've never owned a Volvo. -Always seemed like such a dirty word.

Tomorrows Friday News Roundup on the DR show:

  Naftali Bendavid national correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
  Shawna Thomas White House producer, NBC News.
  David Welna congressional correspondent, NPR.
Seems like a balanced group. I very rarely ever hear anyone get to the point where they even remotely close to thinking about "shouting" in the sense that popular talk radio does. It's good stuff. As for the commercials, not sure what you're listening to but I'll take a few nods to such and such charitable fund and the occasional bloomberg shout out over actual Goldline ad's any day.

-Click and Clack definitely kick ass.





cliffelam  ·  4650 days ago  ·  link  ·  
As I said, short of shouting. Shouting is less effective on radio, I guess.

NPR has commercials for TV shows on Fox (yeah, I was startled), car dealerships, charities (they may be not-for-profit, but the exec's profit and they pay for spots), summer camps, private schools, etc, etc. They to try to keep only high-tone stuff in there, but as the man said, "we've already established what kind of person you are, now we are just haggling over the price."