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There must be some acceptable middle ground. Have you ever listened to BBC news radio? It's dry as chalk.
by flatline 11y ago
There must be some acceptable middle ground. Have you ever listened to BBC news radio? It's dry as chalk.
- mikeash 11y agoThe BBC news I listen to (the News Hour they play on my local NPR station every morning) is much more emotional than NPR. This is especially true in the interviews, where they hit hard and are not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions, whereas NPR interviewers tend to be very accommodating and mostly exist to set up the interviewee to say what they want to say.
- nosuchthing 11y agotry BBC world service, it's dehydrated.
- tsotha 11y agoI love the World Service. I just want to hear the news without gimmicks.
- iheartmemcache 11y agoMy #1 source. It's the antithesis of local news. Owen Bennett Jones is a _legend_. He's Kronkite/Brokaw/Jennings all into one. My father is in his late sixties and remembers listening to Jones with HIS father during the peak of the cold war half way across the world. Lyse Doucet does some amazing international on-the-ground coverage. I'll take dehydrated any day over 24-news-hour "let's spend 4 days over-analyzing the same 16 second presidential campaign snafu 16 months away from the primaries" alternative.
- analog31 11y agoI love the schoolboy-ish urgent excitement of BBC reporters.