But you could set your watch by it if you know the line-up of the daily shows! And each show has signature music. And each show has hosts who have been taught to speak “public radio” and they have the correct vocabularies and intonations. It all sounds very different to these elements used on corporate tv—music, vocabulary, intonation, etc. if you’ve ever been stuck in an American airport departure lounge for several hours, it’s almost impossible to avoid!
I'm not really familiar with that side of NPR. I do remember being shocked when an NPR station reporting on the war against Serbia went totally us-against-them jingoistic, as if they were broadcasting from an American Legion post in Indiana. A very small war by modern standards, but I think that was when I realized I couldn't listen to them any more. Before that I had been listening to WNYC, a pre-NPR public radio station.
No, it was talk radio. Talk, talk, talk.
But you could set your watch by it if you know the line-up of the daily shows! And each show has signature music. And each show has hosts who have been taught to speak “public radio” and they have the correct vocabularies and intonations. It all sounds very different to these elements used on corporate tv—music, vocabulary, intonation, etc. if you’ve ever been stuck in an American airport departure lounge for several hours, it’s almost impossible to avoid!
I'm not really familiar with that side of NPR. I do remember being shocked when an NPR station reporting on the war against Serbia went totally us-against-them jingoistic, as if they were broadcasting from an American Legion post in Indiana. A very small war by modern standards, but I think that was when I realized I couldn't listen to them any more. Before that I had been listening to WNYC, a pre-NPR public radio station.