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Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-golden-voice-goes-silent dept.

edIII writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:58PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:58PM (#668600) Homepage Journal

    For a guy who knows more about the workings of this site than most anyone else, you tell us how a story on Bush dying is supposed to get posted here when she had the temerity to die after Kasell?

    The same way anything else gets posted. My, aren't we the angry little dipshit today?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:05PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:05PM (#668605)

    Angry shitbird complains stupidly, annoyed reply calls bird names, angry bird is confused. And apparently still stupid.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:44PM (3 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:44PM (#668618) Homepage Journal

      Was that supposed to rile me up or something? You might want to go practice up on /. or one of the chans before you try trolling here. You'll only end up mocked if you don't.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:04PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:04PM (#668624)

        Oh noes not mockery! Guess you troll so much you just assume others are doing the same. I was observing and offering commentary about the reality of the situation.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:45PM (1 child)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:45PM (#668699) Journal

          Uzzard is the little-known, secret, brown Angry Bird. When you launch him out of the slingshot, he tells all the other birds to go fuck themselves and just flies off the screen without actually hitting anything you aimed him at, though the more or less random shower of birdshit can occasionally demolish small wood structures.

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