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"Talk of the Nation" host Neal Conan, who has been at NPR for 35 years, will also step away from the rigors of daily journalism, according to a statement from the network. This is the best news ever!!!
NPR is ending "Talk of the Nation" after twenty-one years on the air.
The New York Times reported that NPR is replacing the show with "Here and Now," a news show produced by Boston University's WBUR, on July 1. "Talk of the Nation" will go off the air at the end of June. "Talk of the Nation" host Neal Conan, who has been at NPR for 35 years, will also step away from the rigors of daily journalism, according to a statement from the network.
NPR will partner with WBUR to expand "Here and Now," currently a one-hour program, into a two-hour show. Jeremy Hobson, who currently anchors "Marketplace Morning Report," will also co-host with Robin Young, the current host of the program.
The change, The New York Times reported, is a move towards less opinion and more news. The development of "Here and Now" also marks a unique partnership for NPR.
"A central part of our plan is to tap into a lot of the public radio stations across the country that are doing wonderful journalism that never gets heard outside of their markets," Charlie Kravetz, WBUR's general manager, told the Times.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/npr-talk-nation-ending_n_2979124.html?utm_hp_ref=media
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riqster
(13,986 posts)alp227
(31,959 posts)trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,809 posts)to watch it, considering that it's a radio show.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I have never had a problem with this program and listen to it frequently. I do love the programming from WBUR also and our local NPR station carries several of that stations offerings already.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)also. There is nothing to celebrate about this announcement.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I haven't listened to it for over a decade and don't like what it became, but I used to love that show when Ray Suarez hosted it. Book Club of the Air, Science Friday, full-hour shows on a single topic, it was great to have on while working.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)like him or a panel. I think Chris Hayes is the closest to him in skills.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)You could always tell he had actually read the book before interviewing its author, unlike his successor.
alp227
(31,959 posts)Good interviewing & reporting in both programs.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)for a long time, and their goal has always been to upset the norm..to irritate and eventually to undermine whatever organization/show/publication they target.
Eventually the left-leaning people fall away, devotees find other interests and the thing dies a lingering death.
They have infiltrated PBS, The Sierra Club , "mainstream" media, online chats/blogs and will never stop doing it.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)While trying to sound impartial.
a kennedy
(29,460 posts)He's quite condescending to his guests, and that "nose" in the air comes across quite well over the airwaves. Ugh.... I too enjoy my local public radio station and give financially yearly.
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Although I think it was actually about cosmetics.
That caller, who had lied to the screener over what he was calling about, got a huge amount of support on the TOTN forum on their website, I recall. Maybe that's why they stopped running the forum shortly afterwards.
Our local station dropped the show during the Iraq invasion and replaced him with Warren Olney. I don't think anybody complained.
alp227
(31,959 posts)I cannot find that caller who allegedly ripped on Conan. Either NPR scrubbed it permanently or I was lazily skipping thru the audio.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Before telling him to buzz off. That's actually quite startling if NPR clipped him out of the audio archive. I wouldn't have thought it of them.
I'm going to have to give it a listen and see if I can find it.
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Simon from Chicago rocks for articulating in a calm and thoughtful manner what so many of us were thinking at the time. NPR seems to have been trying to attract a different audience in the last decade and it's annoying to us longtime listeners.
"Dumbing down", indeed.
Thanks Simon, if you're out there somewhere!
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MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)But I have to say, Here and Now doesn't set a huge standard, though the host's voice reminds me of Terri Gross.
In fact, NPR just isn't listenable much anymore during drive time, IMO.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)... cause he also hosted "Market Place", which ain't what it used to be, either!
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Which I still catch most evenings over dinner and which for some reason annoys me far less than it did during the stockmarket boom times of the nineties. Back then everybody was talking marketing speak, advising us to define ourselves as a "brand" that had to be marketed all our lives, and giving hourly stockmarket updates.
I hated it
patrice
(47,992 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)I really hated that show. In fact, that creeping opinion problem, mostly right wing opinion, is why I dumped the NPR stations off my clock radio in favor of the local classical station. I can stand soft spoken ads for brokerages and Audis far better than a bunch of Gish Galloping Republicans.