Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by dcormier on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:41PM
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> The other reason was that any new show seemed to be just so... Sad? Depressing? Melancholy?
Same. I couldn't do it anymore. I eventually realized that when I seek out specific media to consume, I need it to be less depressing than I found that show to be.
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by etrautmann on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:04PM
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Yep, agreed. Most new shows seem “important” but not what I wanted to listen to at any point in time, and kinda depressing and without humor or levity. It felt like the social mission shifted and even if I agreed with some or many of the goals, that wasn’t why I was listening
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by astrange on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:27PM
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I listen to Wait Wait, which sometimes tries to promote other NPR podcasts but never in a way that makes them interesting. For like a year they had an ad that was just an out of context clip from a Matthew McConaughey interview that made absolutely no sense to me.
Anyway, Wait Wait and Planet Money have paid ad-free podcast tiers now.
The rest do seem to be serial podcasts about true crimes or otherwise why you should feel bad about someone somewhere.
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by jononomo on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:44AM
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Wait Wait is just so cringeworthy. It's like they don't even understand what humor is but nevertheless think they're funny. It's atrocious.
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by astrange on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:04PM
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You try having to be topical and not going blue for your audience of extremely nice middle aged moms. It's funnier than SNL monologues.
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by jononomo on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:42PM
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Yeah, but SNL is famous for only being funny for three weeks every four years when the presidential elections roll around. I keep forgetting that SNL even exists. I would be embarrassed to be on SNL.
That has always been part of the show. Typically the stories are snapshots of a moment in life and often life isnt bubbly and happy. But it seemed like every single episode was just depressing.
I still listen to Embedded which is good depending on the topic and Serial and occasionally pop the local NPR station on on drives but it does feel like there was a change for the worse around that time.