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Federal Funding Shown to Tighten Vocal Chords

I listen to an odd mixture of shock jocks and NPR during my daily commute. Has anyone noticed that everyone on NPR talks in the same breathy tone? What is it about this outlet that makes everyone from Terry Gross to the host of St. Paul Sunday Morning, talk in a tone akin to a stage whisper? Don't get me wrong, NPR goes into many stories in depth, unlike so many other outlets. But the breathy tone, combined with the tendentious, pseudo-hypersensitive, polysyllabic angst is just hysterical sometimes. "Oh Mr. Zuckerman, the delicate tone you produced in the opening passages of the Kreutzer Sonata, when you played at the benefit for victims of oil-based moisturizers, reminded me of a row of ants proceeding up a broken cement wall in the poverty-ridden barrios of Caracas.....Do you often think of the smaller hard-working members of the animal kingdom when you play?"