I love NPR, can’t stand the music interludes between stories. There I am driving down the road listening to A Class reporting on the Iraq War or some other horrible genocidal rage somewhere in the world and then WHAMMO! Some flutey violin thing starts playing.
Once I got lucky after a report about recent international terrorism as they transitioned into a nice upbeat, off the wall, never heard of before by normal people jazz ensemble. Oh that’s right, I almost forgot that time the report about a fatal plane crash flowed so nicely into some Muddy Waters blues.
Sometimes I think the music is supposed to add an air of sophistication to the broadcast. It doesn’t. It ruins the entire news moment. There is a fine line between sophistication and snobbery.
I’m not saying NPR needs to create a completely false sense of urgency when reporting news like, oh say . . . Wolf Blitzer and “The Situation Room”, but the oboes and cellos need to go.
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i think you have it exactly backwards. if they would just eliminate the despicable dreck you refer to as “a class reporting”, and just played the music…now that would be an improvement
archer and nudeanncoulter (nudeanncoulter, you’re hot even to democrats), you’re both right, sort of. The two just don’t go together. Dump the reporting or dump the music. Make up your mind. If Fox had NPR’s music, I’d be saying the same thing. It’s just not newsy.
I don’t mind the music, the reporting or the soft tones in which the reporters speak in. It’s a refreshing alternative to the garbage I have to listen to on TV
You are a freakin idiot. Just FYI NPR publishes it’s “Music interludes”, and in fact there is rarely classical music.
If you consider Dead Can Dance, Moby, Bill Frissel, Gotan Project “oboes and cellos”, you need a lobotomy!
vidor on June 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm | Link
I love the music interludes! It breaks up all the monotony and drone of hearing only news stories.
Diana on March 30th, 2010 at 9:59 am | Link
I love the music interludes. Love love love them. Don’t be such a stiff. Live a little and go with the flow.
Mat on June 18th, 2010 at 10:15 am | Link