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I listen to a lot of NPR, but the longform shows (This American Life, Serial, Planet Money, Freakanomics, Radiolab), and always in podcast form. I don't want to
by scott_s 11y ago
I listen to a lot of NPR, but the longform shows (This American Life, Serial, Planet Money, Freakanomics, Radiolab), and always in podcast form. I don't want to listen to my news - I listen to a decent number of podcasts, and I want to be able to choose what I listen to based on momentary whims. That means that the content had better be relatively timeless, which rules out pure news shows that are made of 4 minute segments.
Maybe this doesn't bode well for the flagship NRP programs, but I don't want to listen to my daily news. I want to read it - I read the NY Times daily. The speed at which I can get an understanding of the daily news is so much faster when reading than listening. When I listen, I want a single story or concept in depth.
- chrisrhoden 11y agoOf the programs you listed, only Planet Money is an NPR program. The distinction is very, very important in the context of this article. This American Life, an independent entity which also produces Serial, is decidedly NOT impacted by the shift mentioned in the article, and WNYC (which produces Radiolab and Freakanomics Radio) is producing this on-demand content in part to combat the demographic shifts of their broadcast audience.
- scott_s 11y agoThat is an important distinction to make, and I'm surprised they did not make that distinction in the article. If I'm confused by it, I suspect many people are.