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Carl Kasell, the longtime NPR newscaster who breathed new life into his career as the judge on the public radio station's "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!," has died, NPR reports. He was 84.
The radio personality reportedly died Tuesday in Potomac, Md. of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Kasell, who was known as the steady voice of the news on NPR for more than three decades, grew up in Goldsboro, N.C. with the dream of one day getting his pipes on the air.
"Before I even started to school," he told NPR in 2009, "I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air, and try to fool people that came by to listen."
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Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @01:37PM
NPR is too right-wing for me. They support imperialist wars and male genital mutilation. They can go to hell.