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The view from Ira Glass’s hotel window in Amsterdam, where he spoke to Brent and Sarah by phone during a recent vacation. At one point, their interview was interrupted by music from a boat in the canal. (Photo by Ira Glass)
Even if you haven’t heard of Ira Glass, you’ve heard his influence. When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave him the Edward R Murrow Award this year, they acknowledged Glass had “created a new aesthetic for public radio, now emulated by a new generation of producers and reporters.”
In a conversation with Intern Edition hosts Sarah Metcalf and Brent Baughman, Ira Glass shares the source of that aesthetic—the people he met here at NPR in the late 1970s and some friendly advice.
Sarah Metcalf is a business development intern and Brent Baughman is a Weekend Edition intern.
The story was great. And Sarah Metcalf is an awesome talent!.
Why do NPR broadcasts include so many attempts to demonize Sarah Palin. I and my daughter listen to the Saturday broadcasts consistently and very few go by without stupid jokes which seem innocent enough but can be opinion forming to the uneducated. eg ” how come Sarah Palin was able to publish a book before she could reaed”, or I heard that Sarah just published her Mien Kampf.Some come over in ” All the news that wasn’t” or the the patter of Micheal Feldman. The comedians sound embarest toread the stuff. The jokes dont sink as low as Lettermans remarks about Sarahs 14 year old daugher on his infamous Saturday night broadcast earlier this year.
Whats very bothersme is that Palin is out of contention for any office and at best is a Political Critic. She’s tryiing to raise her children and is dealing with caring for a handicapped child. I too have a live-in handicapped child and can emphasize with her
I’m writing to you in an attempt to learn why NPR apparently has launched this war against any future candidate that will oppose Obama. If you become that politically biased OK but don’t have the chutzpah to do it on tax dollers and ask for public donations on top of that. If you think that politacal humor is harmleess then lets hear a few dozen jokes about the Prez and his first lady and Pelosi and Reid etc
If you need a few, let me know I’ll be glad to make em up for you.
I would appreciate an answer to the one question Is NPR biased because of a Policy Decision and if so who has the responsibility to make that decision.
Thanks,
Bernie Lichtenstein