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Analysis of an hour of NPR

I'd like to see a detailed, second-by-second analysis of how they spend their time

  • Re-announcing the name of the station
  • Announcing the name of the guest, host, or program
  • Straight up ads for their "sponsors"
  • Prestige announcements of foundational sponsors
  • Repeating the summary of the program
  • Ads for other programs
  • Host repeating the biography of the interviewee
  • Story which doesn't ask basic journalistic questions about what actually happened
  • Untranslated foreign language section
  • Musical cues
  • Quote from someone who hasn't been introduced yet
  • Chopped up, possibly out of order quote in response to an unheard question
  • Content

It's a shame they basically accept commercials disguised as sponsorship.

I expect at most 60% of their airtime is actual useful content.