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I wish it would go away. When they interview they show emotion and drive emotion as well as lead the speaker interviewee.

Please stop. I want to infer my own emotions, not yours NPR. I prefer even speech, one which does not add judgement into the story.

Irksome is when they interview a pathetic subject and start with an apology. Like I'm very sorry for the things I think are awful you're going through, but let's have you explain the awful things in a sympathetic way.

Of course NPR isn't the only one. But they have mastered this technique.

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I think in the context of all of the media available to us, it's an acceptable style. I appreciate the human touch sometimes. If every news organization adopts that style then it's a problem.

There must be some acceptable middle ground. Have you ever listened to BBC news radio? It's dry as chalk.

The BBC news I listen to (the News Hour they play on my local NPR station every morning) is much more emotional than NPR. This is especially true in the interviews, where they hit hard and are not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions, whereas NPR interviewers tend to be very accommodating and mostly exist to set up the interviewee to say what they want to say.

try BBC world service, it's dehydrated.

I love the World Service. I just want to hear the news without gimmicks.

My #1 source. It's the antithesis of local news. Owen Bennett Jones is a _legend_. He's Kronkite/Brokaw/Jennings all into one. My father is in his late sixties and remembers listening to Jones with HIS father during the peak of the cold war half way across the world. Lyse Doucet does some amazing international on-the-ground coverage. I'll take dehydrated any day over 24-news-hour "let's spend 4 days over-analyzing the same 16 second presidential campaign snafu 16 months away from the primaries" alternative.

I love the schoolboy-ish urgent excitement of BBC reporters.

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