Posted on 01/09/2026 4:41:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
Why does the famed leftist radio bastion have all its broadcasters speak in that insufferable whisper? Here is the somewhat disturbing answer.
It is a common occurrence for a regular person to be flipping through radio channels, eventually to come across the style of radio presentation known as “NPR voice” — a soft-spoken, breathy, quietly pompous mode of vocal performance suggestive of an intimate conversation among a small circle of elites. The question immediately arises: Who could possibly find this manner of presentation appealing, and why?
The answer lies in understanding NPR as the distilled essence of sociological, ideological, and dispositional liberalism. NPR voice is part of the complex of behaviors exhibited by liberalism at its point of cultural and intellectual heat-death. Understanding its appeal thus requires an examination of this cultural disposition.
Liberalism is one strain of a complex of Enlightenment ideologies that arose out of the sociological tumult of early modernity, as the prevailing aristocratic and clerical authorities of the Late Medieval Period faced the twin onslaughts of the scientific and commercial revolutions. These revolutions heralded the ascendancy of new technical, financial, and industrial power centers that upended the social order and reformed it in their own image. These novel modes of social organization accordingly shifted the prevailing power structures, as the relations between master and slave, journeyman and apprentice, king and vassal, lord and serf had given way to an entirely different configuration of power relations between employer and employee, mayor and town councilman, representative and lobbyist.
Ultimately, the ideologies of the Enlightenment are best understood as projects to justify, formalize, and crystallize the novel power relations of the modern era so as to transfigure these ascendant power dynamics into properly grounded arrangements of social authority — to incorporate these arrangements into state structures geared toward universally
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One day they are listening to NPR and the next day they are organizing a mob to burn their city.
Sorry, but the “Enlightenment” was always anti-clerical.
They want to sound calm while they entice you to go to prison for rioting.
ROTFLMAO! Intellectual Heat Death! The author did a perfect job of writing a commentary using the style and language of NPR! This is hilarious!
Never really paid much attention to NPR & saw no reason for the taxpayers to support it. Glad to hear that apparently they are no longer receiving federal funding.
SNL did a perfect NPR — the whisper, the intonation, the cadence. “Schweddy Balls” was the best. 😁
Just because someone talks to us in monotone doesn’t mean they are not lying.
“NPR voice is part of the complex of behaviors exhibited by liberalism”
Sociopaths usually are pompous talkers.
Never paid much,if any attention to NPR. Looked at it as pretty much a waste of time. Their programming just held no interest for me, so I am not sorry to hear that they are no longer publicly funded.
I just put it down to the typical kind of speech with people who are infatuated with themselves and with the sound of their own voice.
It's the reason I cannot listen to them because it's so aggravating....Example: Meg Markle, who always sounds like she has a feather up her a@!. To make it worse, her mouth NEVER stops!
I always wondered if they stole of the idea from WQDR in Raleigh. It was an “ahead of its time” FM rock station in the 70’s with calmed voice DJ’s that wouldn’t hesitate to play Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick all the way through. They probably sold more stereos that any other station. If I ever win the lottery, I will buy it, toss off all those tooth-flickin’ yucksters and convert it back to historic rock with AI DJ’s who just announce the songs.
I would have thought NPR Voice would be a screaming.
The Left seems to spend most of their time screaming in recent times.
Maybe they are trying to appear more reasonable than the foot soldier in the street.
You don’t rant when you ask “How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”
I remember as kid in the 70’s that rock station DJs would just play the records; no fuss, no drama. Now, the DJs sound like hyped up kids.
Bkmk
“Given these proclivities, it should be unsurprising that this faction found its ideal political executives in the persons of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
When you’re right, you’re right.
Like Tommy Shannon in Buffalo. I remember...
NPR is geared toward Leftist, middle aged, professional class women. That’s who their audience is overwhelmingly.
SNL did a skit on “Schweaty Balls” from Minnesota in the disgusting NPR voice. Bourbon balls of course.
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