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Vocal fry and upspeak are pretty hard to listen to once they get in your ear.... Lists to BBC presenters...
Interesting you mentioned two vocal practices associated with young women.
Amateurish and ersatz "thoughtful thinking aloud" is just the latest reason I can't stand listening to radio, and now prefer podcasts. Pause and ponder all you want, Abumrad, Krulwich, Koenig et. al. I have set my player (Podcast Addict, among others) to skip silence and play at 1.2-2.0x speed, so that gormless pauses and ponderous exposition are now scarcely noticeable.
Although I will rarely listen to more emotionally charged content (TAL, Radiolab, etc) on the multiplier, since I don't listen to those shows for their facts or to learn something.
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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.
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Not to mention Silly Names. Looking at you, Sunari Glinton, Neda Ulaby, and Olfebia Quist-Arcton. Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end!
>Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end! It's a product of accent. Her last name is فضل . The anchors are producing the Arabic letter ض as [d], whereas Leila herself is pronouncing it as the Lebanese do: [dˤ]. The pharyngealization of the voiced alveolar stop has an effect on the nex…
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Not to mention Silly Names. Looking at you, Sunari Glinton, Neda Ulaby, and Olfebia Quist-Arcton. Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end!
>Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end! It's a product of accent. Her last name is فضل . The anchors are producing the Arabic letter ض as [d], whereas Leila herself is pronouncing it as the Lebanese do: [dˤ]. The pharyngealization of the voiced alveolar stop has an effect on the nex…
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Interesting you mentioned two vocal practices associated with young women.
Men do it too, Lots of presenters. Even some of the ones on NPR. One of them sounds like he has dry spit (phlegm) in his throat. The speaker of the house was wont to do it on occasion too, so does Obama. May be known as "croak" in some circles.
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It occurs to me that a decent segment of the public figure that politicians and public figures have acting skills. Can you expand on why acting authentic, and the authentic seeming the opposite, in front of the camera is "a major problem with the entire TV and radio age"?
Because it's not authentic, it's "acting authentic". There's a 1987 movie called Broadcast News which touches on the issues of how reporters portray the news and what can happen, and why it might be considered unethical to add touches and flourishes that add authenticity to inauthentic events. NPR Voice is attractive, I enjoy listening to it, but what else can they sell me while they use that voice? If NPR Voice is n…
Granted that an "authentic-sounding voice of authority" can put credence behind inauthentic events, but can not the opposite also be true? By this token, I'm going to have a hard time believing something authentic when I hear it on a typical AM radio broadcast. Doesn't there need to be an amount of consideration of the listener in either situation despite or because of the type of voice being used? "Surely Ira Glass can't be telling me the moon is actually purple right now." "This babbling talking head is really telling me JFK just got shot? Is he serious?"
I appreciate the tip on "Broadcast News"; by coincidence, I'm going to be catching "Truth" at the theater later today, a film about the CBS//Rather fiasco based off the book.
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It occurs to me that a decent segment of the public figure that politicians and public figures have acting skills. Can you expand on why acting authentic, and the authentic seeming the opposite, in front of the camera is "a major problem with the entire TV and radio age"?
The problem is not that the genuinely authentic seems unauthentic, it's often just boring and/or clumsy. I've heard some actual impromptu audio from radio hosts and at times they come off as nervous, bumbling idiots (i.e. normal people). To me, the NPR voice is more like the way I sound in my head, before I open my mouth and begin babbling incoherently.
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try BBC world service, it's dehydrated.
I love the World Service. I just want to hear the news without gimmicks.