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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think pubic radio reporters and announcers, in general, sound snooty and that turns me off. A la "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?"[/quote]

That's funny, because I think the pseudo-folksy tone the national NPR hosts have adopted, especially on Morning Edition and especially the male hosts, is incredibly annoying.

Their reporters are great, though, aside from the occasional twenty-five-year-old with a bad case of vocal fry (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/employers-look-down-on-women-with-vocal-fry/371811/). I love their science reporting (although it, too, suffers from an increasingly patronizing tone) and their international reporting rivals the NY Times.

I think the local WAMU reporters and hosts are generally excellent (love Kojo in particular) and I like that their tone and accents vary. There are only a few whose vocal mannerisms gall me: Memmo Lyons--probably spelled wrong--who reports on things "starting at 4," with a creepy downtone on the end, and the woman who does Metro Connection, the WAMU news magazine, who sounds like she's explaining worksheets to 5-year-olds.[/quote]

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