rant: michael barbaro - the most annoying voice on NPR

I stopped listening to NPR when they went from "leaning to the left" to "worship the God of woke ideology". Everything is covered through the lens of oppression and critical theory. I know hard core progressives that can't even handle the dogmatic obsession with wokeism. It's blatant propaganda(yes just as bad as FOX).

Try consuming something that at least attempts to report the truth( Reuters, NBC, CBS, ABC are fairly centrist on most topics).

Switch to podcasts and listen at 2x speed. The only warning I will give is that you will never be able to listen to 1x talk radio again.

bop wrote:

Thank you for reading. Only posts that agree with my whining will be read. All others will be reported and banned.

Have stopped listening to the station when he comes on.

I'm working on changing the start time of my commute so that I can catch other news sources before or after his show.

I dislike his voice and speaking style in general - but the thing I dislike the most is that the introduction to his show is a more exaggerated version of his already annoying voice and speaking style.

Deer Michael - no one cares if you're an award winning reporter. Get off the radio.

I am with you. I don't understand why he has the flow he does when speaking. When he's ordering lunch, does he....talk....like this.... "I'd like...a, cheeseburger...with...no pickles...and.....french fries. and a drink."

I also hate his relentless use of the sound "huh" and "mmmmh" when he's letting someone else talk.

hank jr wrote:

I am with you. I don't understand why he has the flow he does when speaking. When he's ordering lunch, does he....talk....like this.... "I'd like...a, cheeseburger...with...no pickles...and.....french fries. and a drink."

I also hate his relentless use of the sound "huh" and "mmmmh" when he's letting someone else talk.

+1. Thanks for chiming in. Feels good not to be alone on this.

Thanks to the others for the suggestions.

NPR= National Propaganda Radio

Taxpayers should demand their hard earned dollars not be spent on this Lefty Commie Drivel.

He’s no Ky Risdall

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

NPR= National Propaganda Radio

Taxpayers should demand their hard earned dollars not be spent on this Lefty Commie Drivel.

It really is extremely lefty.

Barbaro works for the NYT, not NPR.

Also, I shudder to think where some of y'all get your news.

NPR has gotten kind of ridiculous, I’ll admit, as a listener of around 20 years.

I do feel that they are different from a lot of conservative media that the product is very high quality, basically scholarly, but it is almost now always presented with a racial or other ultra progressive lens.

Examples are a whole segment about how hiking has been historically inaccessible to transgender people or how the California wildfires have disproportionately effected people of color.

Maybe it’s true that the fires effected people of color more, but it’s not really relevant to anything, doesn’t have any implication, is not the result of negligence or bad actors, Tornadoes in Iowa predominantly effect white people and and storms in the middle of the ocean predominantly effect nobody. So what?

I would say that there is no real reason for him to be kind of whispering like he does.

David Brent wrote:

Barbaro works for the NYT, not NPR.

Also, I shudder to think where some of y'all get your news.

+1

Mass idiocy of LRC proven yet again

Michael Barbaro does not work for NPR.

NPR hired Michael Barbaro? The same station that exposed his credibility. You can't be the most annoying host on NPR, when you are not employed with the station

NPR gets taxpayer dollars to spout left wing nonsense.

runnER/DR wrote:

I stopped listening to NPR when they went from "leaning to the left" to "worship the God of woke ideology". Everything is covered through the lens of oppression and critical theory. I know hard core progressives that can't even handle the dogmatic obsession with wokeism. It's blatant propaganda(yes just as bad as FOX).

Try consuming something that at least attempts to report the truth( Reuters, NBC, CBS, ABC are fairly centrist on most topics).

The OP complained about Barbaro’s voice. You are complaining about the politics of NPR. Your comments are irrelevant. Barbaro doesn’t even work for NPR.

runnerboy70 wrote:

NPR gets taxpayer dollars to spout left wing nonsense.

Which tells us what about how annoying Barbaro’s voice is?

apple slave wrote:

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

NPR= National Propaganda Radio

Taxpayers should demand their hard earned dollars not be spent on this Lefty Commie Drivel.

It really is extremely lefty.

it is moderately left. your views might just be extreme right.

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

NPR= National Propaganda Radio

Taxpayers should demand their hard earned dollars not be spent on this Lefty Commie Drivel.

Thanks for your views on the topic of whether or not the voice of Barbaro, who works for another company, is annoying.

runnerboy70 wrote:

NPR gets taxpayer dollars to spout left wing nonsense.

says the child that wants the police to shoot more people...