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  1. europesays.com/ie/476783/ Mental Health Monday: Friends and Neighbors; Mýa’s New Album ‘Retrospect’; Full Bio: Johannes Vermeer; New Doc About NYC’s Public Access TV #Arts #classical #culture #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Music #NewYork #News #NPR #podcasts #public #radio #wnyc #WNYCStudios

  2. Digital Music News: WNYC and the Internet Archive Invite Musicians to ‘Reimagine the Public Domain’. “WNYC has teamed up with the Internet Archive for this year’s Public Song Project, inviting musicians to ‘reinterpret the public domain.’ Artists of any level are encouraged to ‘adapt, remix, or reimagine works published in 1930 or earlier.’ Selected submissions will featured by WNYC and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/06/digital-music-news-wnyc-and-the-internet-archive-invite-musicians-to-reimagine-the-public-domain/
  3. Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump – The New Yorker Radio Hour – WNYC Studios

    Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

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    October 31, 2025

    By David Remnick

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    Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”—when Stewart was merciless in his attacks on George W. Bush’s Administration—these are much more challenging times for late-night comedians.

    Jimmy Kimmel nearly lost his job over a remark about MAGA supporters of Charlie Kirk, after the head of the F.C.C. threatened ABC. CBS recently announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s program. And Stewart now finds himself very near the hot seat: Comedy Central is controlled by David Ellison, the Trump-friendly C.E.O. of the recently merged Paramount Skydance.

    Stewart’s contract comes up in December. “You’re going to sign another one?” David Remnick asked him, in a live interview at The New Yorker Festival. “We’re working on staying,” Stewart said. “You don’t compromise on what you do. You do it till they tell you to leave. That’s all you can do.”  Stewart, moreover, doesn’t blame solely Donald Trump for recent attacks on the independence of the media, universities, and other institutions.

    “This is the hardest truth for us to get at, is that [these] institutions . . . have problems. They do. And, if we don’t address those problems in a forthright way, then those institutions become vulnerable to this kind of assault. Credibility is not something that was just taken. It was also lost.”

    In fact, Stewart also directs his ire at “the Democratic Party, [which] thinks it’s O.K. for their Senate to be an assisted-living facility.” “In the general-populace mind, government no longer serves the interests of the people it purports to represent. That’s a broad-based, deep feeling. And that helps when someone comes along and goes, ‘The system is rigged,’ and people go, ‘Yeah, it is rigged.’ Now, he’s a good diagnostician. I don’t particularly care for his remedy.”

    This episode was recorded live at The New Yorker Festival, on October 26, 2025. 

    Produced by The New Yorker and WNYC Studios

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    #2025 #America #Americans #ComedyCentral #Democrats #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #JonStewart #LateNightTV #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Podcast #Politics #Republicans #Resistance #Science #Studios #Television #TheNewYorker #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #WNYC

  4. The radio DJ dream is a well-known phenomenon (at least in radio DJ circles). Typically, it involves some variation of the song playing only having 10 seconds left and you have nothing cued up, or the audio console has turned into bread, or coin-operated access devices have been added to the turntables and you don't have any loose change to operate them, etc. Typical worker-bee anxiety fare, only modified for the specifics of the industry.

    Two nights ago, I had one which didn't involve DJ-ing per se, but definitely centered around broadcasting themes, so I'm granting it a hall pass for the purpose of this discussion.

    I had been hired in some capacity at the big NPR affiliate station in Philadelphia. Upon arrival on my first day, I checked in at the reception desk where I was told to wait for my supervisor, whom we'll call "Jerry".

    Jerry appears as per the prophecy. He is dressed like a dork from a lowbrow 1980s screwball comedy. He motions for me to follow him to my new office, so I pick up the trail as he leads me past various offices, studios, and production rooms. Soon, however, the environment changes to a dark warren of dungeon-like stone corridors, with tiny workspaces carved from the rock, each containing a solitary employee either typing furiously on a laptop or recording with a basic mic/audio console rig.

    The labyrinthine stone corridors become increasingly narrow, and I find myself having to turn sideways in order to squeeze through them to keep pace with Jerry. In his pursuit, I am frequently forced to climb down rickety ladders or hoist myself up to new platforms, all covered in the same damp residue typically found deep underground.

    At one such platform, I pull myself up, but realize there's no way my head is going to squeeze through the natural ingress created by two stone ledges. I express this concern aloud, and Jerry advises that I simply turn my head sideways. I follow his instruction and get my head through the opening, only to discover that my shoulders now face a similar challenge and that I'm unable to twist as required due to the tight squeeze. I attempt to back myself out, but have no success. I am trapped inside of a dark passageway which has cleaved a narrow opening from which I am unable to dislodge my head.

    At this point in the story, I should point out that while I've never actually visited the studios of Philly's big NPR affiliate station, I was real-life employed for several years at New York City's equivalent, and getting one's head stuck in a cave was never a routine occurrence, even on bad days.

    Jerry is nowhere to be found. I can't see or hear anyone. There's no room for an emergency crew to chisel a wider opening that would allow me to extract myself. As such, I panic to a degree that wakes me up from the dream and I spend the next 40 minutes awake with my heart racing, frantically reassuring myself that I have NOT actually accepted a job in Philadelphia where I will die of exposure / hunger / a heart attack on my first day.

    #radio #weirddreams #wnyc #whyy

  5. Today in the office, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 performing for a taping of WNYC's Soundcheck podcast.

    #SeunKuti #Afrobeat #WNYC

  6. Fun listening to my friend and former college roommate, biologist Sonke Johnsen, talking about darkness on #Radiolab #WNYC science podcast radiolab.org/podcast/the-darke

  7. Attn: NYC folks - you can now follow @Gothamist in the Fediverse thanks to Flipboard!

    (Gothamist is written and published by the newsroom of WNYC, where I work.)

    #Gothamist #WNYC #NYC #NewYork

  8. Our SAG-AFTRA union at New York Public Radio (WNYC/WQXR/Gothamist) is circulating a petition to encourage management to explore options besides layoffs that they are planning for next week. Please sign and share to show your support for the people who make New York Public Radio!

    chng.it/Hdcg9DCW5R

    #WNYC #WQXR #Gothamist #sagaftra #layoffs #publicradio #union

  9. A fun old graphic from today's New York Public Radio (WNYC) archives department weekly newsletter. Things have changed a bit since the graphic was first published: we phased tape out completely around 2004 or so.

    #WNYC #archives #tape #audioformats

  10. @mcdirk from her interview this past week on #AllofIt on #WNYC it sounded like it was going to be a lot of fun with NY themed Jazz standards plus some of the usual faves.