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For over thirty years, John Humphrys he delighted and angered audiences in equal measure as he confronted the nation’s politicians in his trademark, pointed Today show.
Now the listener himself, a former BBC television presenter and as he showed in his recent evaluation of the program. His verdict? It’s annoying.
“Having been on the radio talking to (and maybe sometimes annoying) the audience for 33 years, I am now the person who shouts on his radio about how annoying the program is,” Humphrys writes in the Guardian.
The focus of his anger is not the tone of the conversation, which often happened complaints during his reign. On the contrary, his criticism presents a good exchange between the presenters, a pleasant reception of the interviewees and the persistence of the rhetoric.
“It’s not the most important things that make people suffer,” Humphrys says. “It’s something that defies the definition of IQ.” In my new listening method, IQ stands for ‘irritation quotient’, and is mainly related to the way the presenter speaks.
“Surely you will see the gratuitous compliments given by the host and the guests to each other.” Very rare is the stranger who does not feel the need to be liked by the interviewer. has become the standard. Where the correct answer should be: ‘Instead. Without someone to ask questions it wouldn’t be a programme.’
“Instead there is a race between the host and the guest. Again, some presenters are more guilty than others.
“And what do we want to do that the presenters sometimes chat a little about the importance (or otherwise) of the interview that one of them has just finished? As a discerning listener can notice, even some of the presenters seem to be very uncomfortable. “
He also expresses annoyance when the presenter “or, God forbid, even the occasional speaker or reporter will find it difficult to get through an interview without ‘y’ knowing…’ perhaps followed by ‘I mean…’.”
Humphrys chooses presenter Amol Rajan, who has said announced that he was leaving the show to do his business in the wealth of the Creator.
“A good example would be Amol Rajan’s insistence on stressing, without fail, the definite article and the indefinite article in every sentence,” Humphrys wrote. “In his country, an ‘A’ bomb has exploded in ‘THE’ Palace of Westminster.
Despite Humphrys’s criticism, there is genuine dismay within the show at Rajan’s departure, with executives seeing his impressive performance as a necessary part of its success.
And despite the upheaval caused by the digital revolution in the media industry, Today still commands an audience of more than 5 million a week.
Humphrys agrees BBC directors may have an opinion on what they are presenting on the show. “I think if I were the editor of Today, the words ‘pain of the fist’ would come to mind,” he wrote.
He also said he may withdraw from the hearing if the budget cuts continue, while admitting he is more protected than others. Previous cuts indicated that the show had lost its dedicated writers.
“Otiose? Almost always,” Humphrys writes about the show. But will I really die on this mountain? Maybe not.
“And if the big boss insists on cutting his budget so sometimes he has to use the TV news last night and have less ‘Today’ and ‘Yesterday’ – then Radio 3, I’m here!
