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intersection of the Economy and Culture, NPR Personality, Slate, Forbes. -- Email: sonari @delitemedia .com Insta: Sonari1 *c7a8cbc8

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2 years
What Brits don’t realize is that during pride in Los Angeles…they played Meghan Markle walking into St. Paul’s in white on a loop! Keep trashing her. Make her even more iconic. Alienate the Commonwealth. Us black queens have her. #MeghanMarkle #Jubilee #HarryandMeghan
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New African Woman Magazine
2 years
SHARING! Her Royal Gorgeousness 🤍🖤 #MeghanMarkle #Mondayvibes
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2 years
@AudieCornish This thread is the most Audie Cornish that ever Audie Cornished. I salute you.
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6 years
Election night reminds me that I miss Gwen Ifill.
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2 years
I love that this phrase makes people in GB annoyed #MeghansHusband
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2 years
Side note: Brits do not see how their anti-Meghan vitriol plays in Black communities esp in Commonwealth countries. Racism built the empire and it willl destroy the Commonwealth. #DuchessofTights
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Omid Scobie
2 years
The tragic irony of this Daily Mail columnist using a racist slur to rant about the biracial host of a podcast on the damaging labels used to dehumanise women.
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6 years
For every disgraced star you feel sad about, there’s a dozen women who could’ve done the job better but never got the chance.
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4 years
Public radio is not known for its diversity. I know this well, I've often been the only black man in many a newsroom, show or desk in my career. It didn't quite like the Twilight Zone until I contributed to @nprfreshair
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5 years
During my interview w/Lorna Luft, as I asked why Judy Garland appealed to gays, at the very moment @arishapiro bounced past the window making faces and waving. The engineer, also gay, pronounced it the gayest moment in NPR history, no all history. @nprfreshair #nprlife
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4 years
Fresh Air in many ways sets the standard for public radio's sound, and is powerful enough to set or change the agenda in publishing and Hollywood. It does it without any black voices at the table. I know public radio can do better.
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8 months
The worst racism and homophobia I experienced in my career was at the hands of NPR executives. The new CEO needs to ask basic questions like: Why does NPR have one Black man reporting news and NEVER had a Black man host ATC or Morning.
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News: NPR CEO John Lansing announces he intends to retire at the end of 2023. His four-year term will be defined by his handling of the pandemic, a racial reckoning, and severe headwinds in the podcasting industry My story:
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2 years
I can hear the heads exploding of the Meghan hater in the UK. Pay them no nevermind Miss Ragland’s daughter is heading to New York City. #sussexsquad
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Are Heading to New York City Next Week for a Special U.N. Appearance
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2 years
I just saw #DuchessofTights I need to investigate…
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4 years
What stuns me about @nprfreshair is the power it has in the publishing, tv and film communities. Juxtapose that to the appalling lack of color on the show. In Fresh Air's history it's only had 1 black editorial staffer in nearly 45 years on the air! Read that again.
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1 year
@rgay Yeah, I went down that rabbit hole and realized that men are as awful as they say.
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4 years
Being an ally means not just opening your mouth but your check book. This famous photo with Dino, Sammy and Francis is at a fundraiser for Martin Luther King’s SCLC. @willfriedwald @NancySinatra #BlackLivesMatter
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2 years
Can you say unintended consequences? #KingCharlesIII #DukeHarry
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2 years
The most cogent analysis of royalty I’ve seen in a while
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4 years
For Dr. Ewing's sake it's clearly better to have done the full scale interview with Terry Gross on @nprfreshair than a member of the JV squad like me. However, erasing a conversation between 2 black Chicagoans talking about race and violence seems, tone death.
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4 years
I went to @nprfreshair with open eyes. Hearing the stories from my #wemakewhyy colleagues as part of @sagaftra I knew of many problems. But a show about culture that's broadcast from Philadelphia without black staff? A city that's 44% black. C'mon.
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3 years
I’m amazed at how much crap the Brits give Harry. But then again maybe not #HarryandMeghan
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2 years
I’m thinking The Duchess of Tights will be a HUGE Halloween costume in WeHo this fall. Need inspiration for my look. Suggestions? #DuchessofTights
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6 years
It’s been two months since a white person has criticized my grammar, policed my tone, or made some insensitive comment about my name. I’m loving my post public radio life! #reclaimingmytime
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6 years
Just saw this walking down sunset ... grateful to the many black women who paved my way and gave back. Thinking of the many women who hold me up, push me forward and embrace the real me. #InternationalWomenDay2018
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10 years
Yuzuru Hanyu becomes 1st Asian man to win gold medal. #nprsochi #Soch2014 http://t.co/hgBAmzA6P9
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5 years
#tbt black men in public radio
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2 years
@abbytoir My mom dated a guy who reached for his spoon when they put down the finger bowls. This was the 1980s at The Pump Room. To be honest I don’t know how I’d respond to a finger bowl today
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2 years
Don’t tell me She’s not giving Diahann Carroll as Dominique Devereaux #HarryandMeghan
@MyDaughtersArmy
Greg Hogben
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Such a glorious ‘Fuck You!’ to all the haters. #HarryandMeghan
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3 years
I did a public radio story this week with not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 BLACK men. And we weren't reporting on crime, hip hop, jazz or an Obama. It only took me two decades. Pardon me while I pop a bottle.( @Deggans thanks for singing background) #blackmen
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2 years
@reblavoie This is a team that’s shown a history of disdain, disregard and disrespect for minority creators and our stories. The amount of pain Ira Glass has caused is immeasurable. The team should be apologizing not celebrating.
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6 years
That time when @HorsleyScott took his day off to show my momma around the White House 2 years ago. Every week or so since she’ll say “Scott must work hard. I hear him all the time.”
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4 years
Rachel Robinson the queen of Los Angeles: ���I believe that the single most important impact of Jack’s presence was that it enabled white baseball fans to root for a black man, thus encouraging more whites to realize that all our destinies were inextricably linked”
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3 years
My most surreal NPR moment: sitting in on @cartalk and realizing they were EXACTLY like they sounded on the radio. In the running for the nicest guys in public radio, true sweethearts both (rip Ray Maggliozzi) #NPR50
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4 years
I don’t know if the world can handle a David Greene with a full night of sleep. I’m worried y’all. @nprgreene
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7 years
#wemakenpr A tentative deal has been reached after a lot of hard work! @ NPR
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2 years
“I implore you! Have fun with your life. Have fun with your body!” @lizzo just now — I didn’t know Lizzo was the woman I’ve waited for this long. #lizzo #YITTY
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4 years
My mother and her 80 year old neighbor stood in line for 3 hours to vote. “I’m gonna bring chairs when I bring the rest of my friends.”—I think pundits are missing something again.
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6 years
My youngest sister committed suicide a year ago. It was then I realized how cruel and ignorant we are in the media about the issue.
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6 years
It is not just a mental health issue is important to remember. In most parts of the world suicide is a social justice issue.
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6 years
Truly a sad day at NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air: Every weekday for more than three decades...more news to come. #ripcarlkasell Such a good funny dude.
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3 years
Is 5:46 AM Pacific too soon for champagne?
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3 years
You’re the rare white public radio colleague who said or did or anything when it was obvious being a black man in the newsroom was hard. Howard Berkes u saw from Utah. A union man advocating for remote work for decades. Journalism is only part of your work. #wemakenpr
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40 years ago today I became an ⁦ @NPR ⁩ reporter covering the Rocky Mountain States from Salt Lake City. Here I am in my home/office studio in an old mining cabin in Allen Park Canyon in 1983. Thousands of stories & 40+ journalism awards followed. A career making good trouble
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4 years
I love getting my news from my Mom. Literally I have no idea what’s going on but my mother is ready to fight somebody because of an interview that @NPRKelly Kelly did tonight. “ go read it and then talk to me!” #nprmom
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3 years
When you’re walking through LA and you need to charge your phone… #Protip tell them you’re @samsanders
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I make my debut on @nprfreshair on Tuesday! Talking about #AStarIsBorn with singer, actress, and author Lorna Luft (Grease 2, Judy’s daughter, Liza’s sister). #FreshAir @tcm
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4 years
“Despair is a luxury you cannot afford! Be anger, be very angry, but never lose hope.” John Lewis #ripjohnlewis
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4 years
I interviewed @eveewing about her book of poetry 1919 last year. She also wrote a landmark book "Ghosts in the School Yard" about Chicago schools, she also has a comic book series #ironheart She teaches at U of C and she hosted the Studs Terkel pod. My interview never aired.
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3 years
I’m drinking, because my mother is going to church. #2020 #ChristmasEve2020
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3 years
You know that you’re in GenX When your parents get the vaccine and you feel like you deserve a medal. #CoronaVac #genx
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7 years
I'm grateful to @arishapiro for his example as a journo & a gay man. I follow in the trail he's blazed. Thank u Ari #WeMakeNPR #PrideMonth
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3 years
“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.” Cicely Tyson #ripcicelytyson
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5 years
First piece for NPR, I did it as a production assistant
@Bob_Mondello
Bob Mondello
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Just found out this gorgeous remembrance of DORIS DAY was the first piece @Sonari ever recorded. The writing, the read, the structure, the conceptual work, and that extraordinary ending...all flawless.
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4 years
Just two black Catholic school boys from Chicago. my forever bishop. He needs all the prayer we can muster...may all the big mommas in heaven intercede on his behalf.
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5 years
Guess who stopped by our #hollywoodbowl box before his performance with @PinkMartiniBand #arishapiroismycopilot
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3 years
@arishapiro @lourdesgnavarro @NPR @NPRWeekend Weekend mornings are the only times I can consistently listen to the radio…while I make coffee and biscuits. Remember learning to produce by mixing her pieces. I’ll keep my fan art for a while @lourdesgnavarro #lulu @NPRWeekend
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5 years
@eveewing I had #1919 out, at the barber shop, dude next to me was like: "DAWG is that the new Eve Ewing?!" Like rims or Jordan. To which I said, "Negro u aint up on this" -- and we were pleased. #nerdking
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4 years
Got my 1st public radio internship because Richard Steele walked my resume directly to the head of HR (Dorse Kelly a black woman) after I met him at the dry cleaners. Before that I got no response. Diversity is an innovation. @WBEZ #blackvoicesmatter #nabj @nabj @soundopinions
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6 years
Facebook has turned everyday into the anniversary of something. it’s telling me it’s been 4 years since we lost Tom Magliozzi of @cartalk — in his honor I will ride with the top down and turn the radio on AFTER @nprscottsimon ... heyo !! #lol #cartalk #rip
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4 years
Book publicists consider a booking on the show to be the Holy Grail. When a book gets on @nprfreshair it sells out. Hollywood stars often refuse to do other public radio shows unless they talk to Terry.
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8 years
I will drive, top down in Beverly Hills. (Only take pics while parked). That's when I feel free. #blackmanjoy
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3 years
In honor of pride, henceforth I’d like to be referred to as Top Car Gay. As in “we’re joined by top car gay Sonari Glinton” hosts please adjust your intros #Pride2021 #cargay #topcargay
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3 years
I just kissed a baby. Then I squeezed a fat baby leg. Then I realized hadn’t kissed a baby in a year and got choked up. How’s your Tuesday?
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6 years
I wish I could be eloquent or thoughtful about suicide. For those of us that survive. I just fallback on something Joan Rivers used to say: “It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.” Note the repetition.
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My youngest sister committed suicide a year ago. It was then I realized how cruel and ignorant we are in the media about the issue.
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3 years
The producer in me looks at this photo of retiring @npr music editor Tom Cole feels a bit o angina. The young reporter in me is grateful to a kind editor who fights for young reporters (and freelancers) and every second of airtime.
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5 years
Its how I pass the time: Glenn Close as Nina Totenberg, Sigourney Weaver as Susan Stamberg, Julia Louis Dreyfus as Melissa Block...
@louisvirtel
Louis Virtel
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Casting is a gay superpower. Ask a gay man to reveal his superpower and he’ll close his eyes, touch his temple and say, “It’s time for Rosamund Pike to play Martina Navratilova.”
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Quote of the day: “All I know is Sam Sanders better get a raise out this (expletive deleted).” My mother Dorothy Glinton @samsanders @NPRWest
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4 yr old me: “Ma, what’s Wonder Woman’s last name?” Ma: “Glinton damn it. I’m the only Wonder Woman you know!” 46 me: “True. True.” Happy Birthday Wonder Woman! @missdorothyg #happybirthday #WonderWoman #blackmom @HugosFrog
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4 years
A few weeks ago, the show exec Danny Miller emailed to give me "credit" for introducing the show to Eve (as if she'd been hiding under a rock) and Terry Gross would be doing it.
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5 years
A friend sent this job listing. It’s for a personal assistant. The last Responsibility on this long list for personal assistant is figure out how to record and produce a podcast. May the ghost of Daniel Schorr haunt this person!
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2 years
"The 'Great Replacement' theory wholly replaces reality, presenting the dying as the living, and the living as the dying," @DrIbram writes:
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4 years
I think Gwen Ifill got her wings this week. Know what I’m saying?
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3 years
When you are feeling anxious so u text a friend and they’re REPORTING live about the thing your anxious about —(x3) It’s like I can’t process the crazy because my friends are processing the crazy for the world. When do they process?
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3 years
Chicago is the smell of barbecue, steaks and pizza wafting through the air, on a Friday night. #Chicago #chitown
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8 years
I don't have an NPR name. I have a Nigerian name. It's the only thing I own. I carry it with me like my daddy did.
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8 years
Nowhere in the NPR handbook does it say I have to be gracious when people are rude to me about my name. #nprlife
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5 years
While making @arishapiro shirts, Ari Shapiro tweets about said shirt thus ruining my calculated rollout strategy...
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“You’re dressed gayer than I am!” He exclaimed. West Hollywood mourns a Queen! Rest In Peace #RIPLeslieJordan #LeslieJordan #Weho
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6 years
Young people are way more engaged than we give them credit for.
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Rich Preston
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Interestingly: More than a quarter of the @BBCWorldService audience is aged 15-24 years old.
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4 years
To be honest, the only thing I miss is the flower market.
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1 year
Waiting for Beyoncé to perform 10 years ago today at Obama Inauguration (Pre iPhone) @samsanders
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5 years
Thank you @common “Without memory there is no civilization.”
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin. On this day in 1987, James Baldwin passed away at the age of 63. While he may be gone, his work continues to influence and inspire millions of people including myself.
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Hiring is not enough. You have to nurture, encourage, and treat us like multifaceted humans. I’m so grateful to Alicia. You have been riping bandaids and speaking truth to power consistently for far too long #blackvoicesheard
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Ripping off a band-aid here. The diversity problem in public media or any media is going to fester as long as there are zero consequences for treating JOC like garbage once they get in the door.
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3 years
I should note that Ari couldn’t have had the access or been able to tell the story if he hadn’t been out at the time.
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Ari Shapiro
3 years
The Pulse shooting 5 years ago was personal for me. Thank you @JeffreyGoldberg and @YAppelbaum for inviting me tell this story in @TheAtlantic , producer @jinaewest for ruining “All I Want For Christmas,” and @nathanjokers for picking up when I called.
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3 years
Personal news: I’m taking over the Morgan Stanley Ideas podcast! The new name is: Now, What’s Next? —where learn the ‘good ol days weren’t so good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems’
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6 years
When you meet one of the people on the radio and you realize, he's cool and very funny. The definition of unflappable. @JWhitePubRadio #RIPCarlKasell
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8 years
Report. Pray. Repeat.
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2 years
The regret of my radio career? I didn’t record my godmother Jacqueline Jackson’s voice. I’d pay the cost of a sports car to hear 30 seconds. Record your family’s voices. Record those Zooms! use your phone. #HappyKwanzaa @KitinDC
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2 years
Can somebody do a podcast about how hard it is to do a real podcast? Because if another friend of mine asks me to help them with their podcast for free, I will call it quits and open a flower shop in Palm Springs. #podcast #PodcastAndChill #podcasts
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4 years
Here’s a thought experiment: imagine if Mary Barra sent nocturnal tweets like this.👇🏿
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Elon Musk
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Sure could use a good rave What’s your favorite techno
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6 years
If you write a public person to correct grammar, you are always being an arsehole. You might think you’re upholding standards, but you’re really just tone policing.
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Meghna is so gracious. Crap like this just makes me think I hate the public radio audience and I have zero interest in serving them.
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2 years
Who wants to come over to solve the world’s problems over a chocolate cheesecake? #RIPBettyWhite #GoldenGirls
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2 years
We need more journalists. We need more kinds of journalists. We need journalists in more places. We need more kinds of journalists in more places.
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3 years
Doug Mitchell was the 1st NPR person I met in 2004...when I called him 3 years later looking for a job, he said “hold on let me see what I can do.” I was working at @npratc less than 2 months later (a record in public media) The Next 50 Years
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10 years
Did the president just tell me to offer my mom tech support? As if she needed any more encouragement. #SOTU
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3 years
I think this a pic @nprgreene first time guest hosting in 2010 @MorningEdition —congratulations #NPR
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2 years
Totally fanboying over meeting podcast OG and homeboy Glynn Boom Boom Washington @glynnwashington @snapjudgment
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