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Yeah, Fresh Air/Terry Gross is pretty caught up in her own bubble, if you ask me. She gets pretty feisty when guests challenge her from time to time, which I en

Yeah, Fresh Air/Terry Gross is pretty caught up in her own bubble, if you ask me. She gets pretty feisty when guests challenge her from time to time, which I enjoy. (Good listening when that happens!)

JshWright 9y ago
She gets 'feisty' when guests disagree with her political views, and fawns all over guests age agrees with... I'm a huge NPR fan (I literally sat in my car crying during Diane Rehm's final sign off), but I really can't take Terry Gross...
- stevenwoo 9y ago
  Did you hear the Gene Simmons interview?
dredmorbius 9y ago
Contrast her to any of the Right-Wing talk programmes, where an "opposition" guest can't get a word in edgewise. Gross does not berate her guests. She can and does ask tough questions, but she's not emotionally aggressive. Classic instance is her interview of O'Reilly, where he cut the mic and left the interview. There are lots of online mentions of this, though I'm not sure the episode itself is. See: http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/terry-gross-soothingly-disses-bill-oreilly-watch-w497312 http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/terry-gross-soothingly-d... http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html http://www.metafilter.com/28827/Terry-Gross-vs-Bill-OReilly http://www.metafilter.com/28827/Terry-Gross-vs-Bill-OReilly (Her interviews are almost never in-studio, so guests are typically remote, as in this case.) At the same time, it's quite obvious that Gross is a massive fan of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, to the point of schoolgirl crush. I find it endearingly charming.
- gozur88 9y ago
  The difference is the right wing talk radio shows are on commercial radio. Any show on NPR has an enormous advantage, because they're not packed with advertisements that tempt people to flip to another station. So the host can't really have a relaxed, in depth conversation with anybody. The few left wing commercial radio shows out there are no different from their ideological counterparts.

JshWright 9y ago

She gets 'feisty' when guests disagree with her political views, and fawns all over guests age agrees with... I'm a huge NPR fan (I literally sat in my car crying during Diane Rehm's final sign off), but I really can't take Terry Gross...

stevenwoo 9y ago
Did you hear the Gene Simmons interview?

dredmorbius 9y ago

Contrast her to any of the Right-Wing talk programmes, where an "opposition" guest can't get a word in edgewise. Gross does not berate her guests. She can and does ask tough questions, but she's not emotionally aggressive. Classic instance is her interview of O'Reilly, where he cut the mic and left the interview. There are lots of online mentions of this, though I'm not sure the episode itself is. See: http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/terry-gross-soothingly-disses-bill-oreilly-watch-w497312 http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/terry-gross-soothingly-d... http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html http://www.metafilter.com/28827/Terry-Gross-vs-Bill-OReilly http://www.metafilter.com/28827/Terry-Gross-vs-Bill-OReilly (Her interviews are almost never in-studio, so guests are typically remote, as in this case.) At the same time, it's quite obvious that Gross is a massive fan of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, to the point of schoolgirl crush. I find it endearingly charming.

gozur88 9y ago
The difference is the right wing talk radio shows are on commercial radio. Any show on NPR has an enormous advantage, because they're not packed with advertisements that tempt people to flip to another station. So the host can't really have a relaxed, in depth conversation with anybody. The few left wing commercial radio shows out there are no different from their ideological counterparts.