I've had a couple more commentaries air on News and Notes with Ed Gordon.
One on homeschooling.
Another on the difference between looters and finders.
A couple of my boys have lightly joned on me for not sounding how i really sound. I don't listen to the stories after they air, I just tape them and move on. Too much work to do. And I get pissed when they delete important sentences (my looting commentary ended with the following phrase. "Maybe rather than spending time on looters, reporters should examine why FEMA's response time was so shoddy." It got cut.)
But they have a point. When I usually give a lecture, or an academic presentation, I usually use a modified form of BEV. It allows for more improvisation, warmth, and humor than standard english. I can do this pretty well on radio interviews, and the few times I've been interviewed on television.
It's a bit different when I'm taping a commentary though. The most important things are enunciation, sticking within the 3 minute or so time limit, and nailing the commentary within the production window. I get maybe three or four takes, then loose editing work afterwords. So I'm taking this as a challenge. Because lord knows I'd be talking MASSIVE sh*t if one of my boys was on television sounding like Bill Bonds.
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