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In the midst of promoting three of his latest starring turns, Adam Driver sat for an interview with NPR’s highly influential talk show Fresh Air. But listeners will never hear it. Sources at NPR told The Daily Beast that Driver walked out of an interview earlier this month with Fresh Air host Terry Gross after expressing displeasure at the idea of listening to a clip of himself singing “Being Alive” from the musical Company. Driver’s character sings the song late in Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix film Marriage Story. According to one source, Gross’ team was aware that Driver prefers not...

What happens when a National Public Radio host interviews a New York Times reporter on the subject of Venezuela’s economic collapse? You get a perfect storm of cluelessness. The host is Terry Gross, the guest is New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey, and the program is Fresh Air. Gross asks Casey about the utter disaster that Venezuela has become. Casey understands the depth to which Venezuela has fallen–he lives in Caracas!–but he can’t bring himself to offer an honest diagnosis.

Lots of tense, awkward laughter on NPR today! Hillary Clinton's book tour took her to "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross this afternoon, where the two got into it a bit over if and when Clinton "evolved," as they say, on the issue of gay marriage, or whether she held her personal opinions in favor of equality until they were politically viable. The answer is: Clinton is not telling. But it wasn't for Gross's lack of trying. "So what's it like when you're in office and you have to do all these political calculations to not be able to support something...

Pardon the age of this item, but it's on an issue of campaign history. On March 13, NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewed new CNN host Jake Tapper about politics and journalism, and whether there was blowback from presidents and candidates over tough questions. But Gross felt compelled to bring up the "lies" told about John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign -- without expressing anything specific. Tapper said he was assigned as a Swift Boat Veteran fact checker by ABC. Gross said, "So you were fact-checking some of the Swift Boat attacks against presidential candidate John Kerry. There...

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Terry Gross meets The Simpsons The host of NPR's popular "Fresh Air" just taped an appearance on The Simpsons, in a scene where Marge turns on the radio in a rental car. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the producers encouraged Gross to sound "more cartoonish" on her lines, which make her the latest in a long line of guest stars on the Fox TV series. NPR says the daily hour-long "Fresh Air" is carried on more than 160 stations, and is a popular download via podcast.

Self-described liberal and feminist professor of culture and media studies Camille Paglia is not a fan of Al Franken, Air America Radio, Terry Gross or NPR. She said the following in an interview with the Madison, WI Capital Times newspaper: Al Franken: "Good lord! I want to fall asleep. Narcolepsy." * Air America: It isn't even broadcast in Philadelphia because of low ratings. "It's even slower than NPR. Like a record being played at the wrong speed." * Terry Gross: "Oh god. Awful. I never listen to her show." Gross broadcasts "Fresh Air" from a studio a couple of blocks...

POCATELLO - National Public Radio's award-winning talk show host, Terry Gross, took a break from interviewing political leaders and cultural icons for a speaking tour, including a stop-off at Idaho State University Wednesday. Some conservatives have tagged NPR as one of the cornerstones of the "liberal media," but Gross said that isn't completely true. The word liberal has two connotations, she said, politically left and liberal, as in the liberal arts. In the first political sense of the word, Gross said NPR has no agenda and presents unbiased, balanced coverage of national and world events. "Some people in this day...

  NPR Badgers Lynne Cheney on DaughterIt didn't get much attention - probably because National Public Radio has so few listeners - but the taxpayer-funded network's Terry Gross recently tried to pull a John Kerry on second lady Lynne Cheney, by repeatedly hectoring her about her gay daughter Mary during a Feb. 9 interview. After saying she knew Mrs. Cheney didn't want to discuss her daughter's private life, Gross proceeded to do just that, peppering the second lady with one question after another about the proposed constitutional gay marriage amendment and its impact on parents of gay children.  ...

This is "must hear" interview. If anyone wants to discover how to forcefully and convincingly defend conservative principles against the continuous barrage of negative attention, most of it generated by the media mavens and their political cronies, they need to listen to this man. In my book, he was just as vital to the dissemination-and eventual acceptance among the American public-of bedrock conservative values as Paul Weyrich, William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk and other pioneers in this field. Sit back and enjoy.

Doh! "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening may have crossed the line with his comment last week to National Public Radio's Terry Gross that Fox media empire almost sued itself. (Now that takes some talent!) The story goes that Fox News Channel execs were none too thrilled last year when the wildly popular cartoon, which is on Fox Broadcasting, featured a fake news ticker mocking the station's conservative rep. The headlines included gems such as: "Do Democrats Cause Cancer? . . . Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay . . . JFK posthumously joins Republican Party . . ." ***snip****...

I was going through some old newspapers and this caught my eye... Static hits NPR, VOA airwaves (original title) There's some static on the rarefied airwaves at Voice of America and National Public Radio over controversial content. For VOA, the problem is terrorism, and the tricky business of lending airtime to terrorists and their causes. Twenty-year veteran reporter and Afghan native Spozhmai Maiwandi claims she was censored, yanked off the air and put out to pasture in a "useless" desk job after she produced a rare and final public interview last September with Mullah Mohammed Omar, whose Taliban regime harbored...

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Sun, Feb. 23, 2003 Fame, not fortune, for public radio hostBy Patricia HornInquirer Staff Writer One of the region's most prominent cultural voices, Terry Gross, is host of Fresh Air, a weekday radio talk show produced by Philadelphia's WHYY-FM. Each week, four million people listen to her probing interviews, which are carried by 425 public radio stations nationwide. Yet WHYY, her employer, did not list Gross among its top earners on its 2001 federal tax form. After being questioned by The Inquirer about why its list of top-paid employees did not include its nationally known star, the station discovered it...