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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:03PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:03PM (#668603)

    One is interesting while the other is not.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:41PM (7 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @03:41PM (#668616) Homepage Journal

    Not really. Neither were especially interesting to most of the world. Babs was unarguably more interesting to $world than Carl though, since most of $world had never heard of him.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:02PM (#668637)

      Being known to the world != interesting.

      There are a load of pop musicians I am aware of through no fault of my own and I find them thoroughly uninteresting. I didn't know of Carl either yet just knowing what he did I am 99.9% sure I would find his life more interesting than Barbara's. She did promote literacy and was probably a great lady, but not my cup of harbor tea.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:03PM (4 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:03PM (#668638)

      Honestly, most people will go "Meh!" about both of them.
      But one of the two had a hilarious and informative show.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:59PM (3 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:59PM (#668710) Homepage Journal

        If you say so. I prefer tunes to talking heads. I've yet to listen to one who managed more than one interesting, new idea every third or fourth show. Mostly they're dim-witted, over-complicating the issue, or just plain wrong.

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        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:53PM (2 children)

          by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:53PM (#668726)

          "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!" is a weekly publicly taped show, with guests and comedians, about the funny news of that week, so it's not your average ramblings of a madman, and it only repeats a topic if the news do.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:04PM (1 child)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:04PM (#668731) Homepage Journal

            Ahh. The only one I ever found remotely tolerable was Paul Harvey. We didn't always see eye to eye but he had good manners and was not remotely an elitist of any stripe.

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            • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:36PM

              by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:36PM (#669043) Homepage Journal

              He did The Rest of the Story, so interesting! Always, always an amazing surprise at the end. After the commercials. He was so smart. Not an elitist -- that's so true. A humble guy that loved farmers. So much like me. He asked "why do we have our nuclear arsenal, but we don't use it?" I grew up in New York but I'm conservative. Because of him.