Golden age of public broadcasting: "New CEO of NPR..made his name at VH1 and MTV, & then went on run the E! channel."
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— Billmon (@billmon1) September 9, 2014
"The audience is..not just affluent, it's smart & engaged. What more could a brand want than this type of audience?"
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— Billmon (@billmon1) September 9, 2014
… his totebagger enemies are just… taunting… him, now!
Suffern ACE
All things considered, now with Perez Hilton.
Baud
Coming up on NPR: Beavis and Butthead and All Things Considered
@Suffern ACE:
Near jinx.
rikyrah
the jokes write themselves
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Golden age of public broadcasting: “New CEO of NPR..made his name at VH1 and MTV, & then went on run the E! channel.” http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/08/new-npr-boss-were-going-to-be-talking-about-brands-that-matter-a-little-bit-more/ …
10:49 AM – 9 Sep 2014
Major Major Major Major
Blech. Woohoo.
So sad watching NPR slowly deteriorate over the decades. At least we still have…
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
On The Media
This American Life
Radiolab
Science Friday
Fresh Air
I actually kinda like Marketplace
The 60% of All Things Considered that doesn’t suck yet
Keith G
Well, the money has to come from somewhere and if Democrats can’t keep power in Congress, there are few other options.
beltane
MTV? Remember that old song “Video Killed the Radio Star”?
Mike J
I complained on the earlier thread. Tonight’s schedule:
7pm Fuhrman’s End Dieting Forever! (bang included)
8:30 30 Days to a Younger Heart
10 Frontline
11 Ed Sullivan Rock n’ Roll 60’s
1am 50 & 60’s Rock rewind
All of those shows except frontline are infomercials. I have no use for public TV.
pacem appellant
Ye gods. And I just threatened to withhold my $11 from my local public broadcasting affiliate for airing “Here and Now”.
Baud
The Real World with Cokie Roberts
Elizabelle
@efgoldman:
do tell. how did they spend the $$$?
divF
This represents reality catching up with satire. Sometime in the 1980’s I remember listening to an Ian Shoales’ monologue on NPR in which he predicted the eventual degradation of public radio, for example, by the merging of “All Things Considered’ with “The National Enquirer” leading to a new show “All Things Enquired”.
I gotta go.
Major Major Major Major
@divF: Civilization-HOOOOOOOO!
(Speaking of when indie radio existed)
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: Indie radio still exists, but it’s never had anything to do with NPR.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Mike J: Both can often be found on the Left of the Dial.
CaseyL
The rise of advertising on NPR has been a slow but steady process. Once only the name was mentioned, along with other sponsor names. Then a little tag line about the business the sponsor did.
Now you get a slogan, too.
Slow but steady creep, and soon I guess there will be narrative and dialog. Tasteful, of course. Oh so very tasteful.
I want to throw up.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: I suppose I conflate NPR proper with every other public radio station. Which isn’t hard to do, now that NPR and APM have snatched most of them up and/or provide most of the programming.
Gene in Princeton
Who tunes in to NPR anymore? Listening to Robert Siegel is like having your mouth stuffed with dead moths.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Produced and additional vocals by Alex.
My first indie station was WEVL in Memphis, which gave me a shift at 13 years old. I did bluegrass, big band, and blues shows at various times. It college it was KCOU, playing Left of the Dial et al.
Betsy
@efgoldman: yeah seriously, how did they spend it?
divF
@Gene in Princeton: The only time I listen to NPR anymore is when I’m driving around DC late at night and WAMU is running the BBC news.
I agree with you about Robert Siegel – his voice makes my skin crawl.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Gene in Princeton: The one I can’t stand is the Saturday morning guy…. Scott Simon?
Comrade Mary
BRANDS. BRRRRRRAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNDS.
Gene in Princeton
…and yet they’ve got a pretty good gig over at NPR:
Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” 2009-2010: $361, 093, base salary of $319,370. 2010-2011: $373,097, base salary of $334,560.
– Renee Montagne, co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” 2009-2010: $357,037, base salary of $328,117. 2010-2011: $369,552, base salary of $321,919.
– Michele Norris, former co-host of “All Things Considered.” 2009-2010: $298,360, base salary of $264,9009. No 2010-2011 numbers listed.
– Robert Siegel, cohost of “All Things Considered.” 2009-2010: $362,687, with a base salary of $309,479. 2010-2011: $375,652, with a base salary of $321,860.
– Terry Gross, host of WHYY’s “Fresh Air,” broadcast on hundreds of NPR affiliates. 2009-2010: $254,933, base salary of $233,483. 2010-2011: $256,611, base salary of $233,483.
beltane
@Gene in Princeton: It’s interesting that the one whose best at her job, Terry Gross, is also the one who is paid the least although she is still paid very well. The rest of them are completely expendable and could be replaced without anyone really noticing.
max
@Gene in Princeton: Who tunes in to NPR anymore? Listening to Robert Siegel is like having your mouth stuffed with dead moths.
NPR: for people who don’t want to take lithium.
max
[‘I guess they need a heartbeat of some kind though.’]
NotMax
Kismet for this BJ thread, a cat story from public radio.
jmac
@beltane: that was actually the very first video ever played on MTV.
Major Major Major Major
@beltane: ever see the short film with her and Mike Birbiglia?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZKuN-g
Fresh Air 2: 2 Fresh 2 Furious
MomSense
@NotMax:
I saw that story. Wow, Towser the Mouser killed almost 30,000 mice!
The Misty Copeland story that ran today is also very good.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/09/09/345297939/misty-copeland-on-broadening-beauty-and-being-black-in-ballet
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
I’ll have to get that book for my niece for Christmas (though it’s a little young for her now that she’s turned 8). She’s been dancing for several years now and still loves it.
Mike J
Teachout winning in Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Deleware, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Madison, Montgomery, Ontario, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Seneca, St.Lawrence, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren Washington, Wayne, Westchester, and Yates counties.
Still only has half as many total voes as doofus.
Mike J
@Gene in Princeton: Is your argument that people who work in public radio don’t deserve to make a decent living? Those are pretty damned small salaries for nationally syndicated shows.
ruemara
ugh. how everlovin’ awful.
pseudonymous in nc
It’s 2014. We’re all engaging with brands. Or at least, that’s what’s expected of us in exchange for our media.
srv
Truth to power in its last gasp:
Diane Rehm, here we come!
p.a.
The winner of the RI Democratic gubernatorial primary:
Gina M. Raimondo, General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island
On January 5, 2012 the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership selected Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island General Treasurer who crafted the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act, as its 2011 Urban Innovator Award winner. Raimondo’s work to define long-term retirement security through extensive public pension reforms has stabilized a crisis situation that an October story in The New York Times described as a “nightmare scenario.”
srv
@Mike J: Frontline roasted Obama on Iraq last month. Of course, repressed truths here at BJ.
jibeaux
@srv: is it back to “ACA” now that it’s working halfway decently? I just can’t keep up.
#coughbinladencough
NotMax
What with current events, gotta feel a bit bad, public relations-wise, for this company.
srv
@jibeaux: They wouldn’t need healthcare if they hadn’t been run over by so many buses.
jl
Could rename All Things Considered to All Things Corporate, at least for the economic reporting.
I’ve listened to it when could not escape (mainly visiting parents) and have tolerated the hideous economic reporting by pretending it is some sick satire.
People like Stiglitz and Krugman and Shiller (and James Galbraith) get airtime on NPR but I have never heard them on All Things Considered for analysis. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
And, not sure if its just me, but NPR overall seems to me to have a weird deadened over produced audio quality that I hate. Is that just my imagination? Or are my ears put on wrong?
cckids
@Mike J: Is that a local decision? PBS isn’t like that here. WE’re just now watching This American Life; the Mount Rushmore episode.
Christ, Borglum was an ass.
A Humble Lurker
@srv:
Earlier post on this very blog.
You’d think the guy who made Sicko would’ve mentioned ACA at least. Guess it really didn’t need that much improving, then?
trollhattan
What have they done with that man’s lips?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@srv:@A Humble Lurker: and the guy who made Roger and Me and lives in Michigan can’t think of anything else Obama has done?
Moore, who worked so hard to save the country from Al Gore, is so invested being too noble for this unworthy world he can’t the world in front of his face.
jl
@srv: Sounds like Moore has become a bitter purity troll.
Little evidence on how Obama will look historically years from now. Wikipedia has a compendium of rankings. Seems like Big Dawg Bill is a little below the Grover Cleveland Line, and Obama is a little above, probably due to PPACA and progress on (certain) areas of civil rights. That is in mid-teens. I don’t think that is bad at all for Obama or Big Dawg. Cleveland had a worse sexytime scandal than Big Dawg, and Obama’s lack of one (except for little reported scandal and injustice that I truly believe in my heart that I deserve Michelle, not Barack) maybe helps.
Most of the rankings seem pretty consistent across studies, except for a few controversial cases, like James Madison and the historical (as opposed to Zombie Godhead) Reagan, whose rankings are all over the map.
Dub was doing pretty damn good in studies done before 2002, then he hit rock bottom. Wunner what happened to the lil’ feller?
Anyway, too bad Moore is bitter Obama did not establish the US as a new Sweden or Norway. Obama LIED to us that he would, and never even tried, everyone with an ounce of sense know that, right?
Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Yatsuno
@A Humble Lurker: Nah. Moore was a single payer or nothing true believer. Never mind the fact he ignored how it developed in EVERY OTHER SINGLE COUNTRY in the world.
Mnemosyne
Blogwhoring alert: I’ve posted my DVR suggestions for this Friday’s Pre-Code movies. Once again, it’s an embarrassment of riches, with Lubitsch directing Miriam Hopkins (twice!) and Kay Francis, plus tons of Jean Harlow.
srv
@jl:
Purity is always bittersweet.
I think we need a Snowden thread.
NotMax
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Purely subjective, but would quibble with placing the Fredric March Jekyll & Hyde in the first tier and Gable and Harlow’s Red Dust in the second.
And no mention at all of Wm. Powell and Ann Harding in Double Harness? Both of them are boffo in the only film they starred in together.
Not pre-code (duh!) but Fail-Safe is airing at 3:15 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday. Riveting flick; Lumet (director) and Fonda (actor) firing on all cylinders all the way through.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Purely subjective, but would quibble with placing the Fredric March Jekyll & Hyde in the first tier and Gable and Harlow’s Red Dust in the second.
And no mention at all of Wm. Powell and Ann Harding in Double Harness? Both of them are boffo in the only film they starred in together.
Not pre-code (duh!) but Fail-Safe is airing at 3:15 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday. Riveting flick; Lumet (director) and Fonda (actor) firing on all cylinders all the way through.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
It’s less “First Tier” and “Second Tier” and more “Movies I’ve Actually Seen” vs. “Movies That I’ve Heard Are Good.” I’ve seen Dr. Jekyll but haven’t seen Red Dust. I haven’t heard of or seen Double Harness, but it’s on my DVR list, so I’m planning to take a look.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Ever see Mogambo? Remake of Red Dust, once again with Gable.
Origuy
The only NPR program I listen to is The Thistle & Shamrock.
Keith G
Not unlike the comments about NPR on this thread.
Yes NPR has been diminished and has changed, but it still is the best place in the USA that broadcasts news nationwide every day.
I view it a bit like I view Obama – Started as a great concept with notable successes; experiencing diminishing returns do to inadequate support; not everything they try works out, but their heart is in the right place.
barbequebob
@Major Major Major Major:
Marketplace, yes!
Seems to be the one show on NPR that is trying to shed some light on the ecomony and finance and how it affects non-rich people
debbie
@pseudonymous in nc:
They’ve already branded this winter. It’s supposed to be colder than last year, so it’s been named “RefrigerNation.”
DougJ
Yeah, I saw that. How long til their releasing nude selfies of celebs on the Snooze Hour?