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Windsor Johnston’s S’s are too sharp

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Windsor Johnston is a great reporter, she’s smart & had a great time to her voice but I cannot stand to listen to her because the way she pronounces the letter “S” is insanely sharp. It nearly whistles when she annunciates the sound & I have to turn her all the way down, waiting for the next voice to come through. PLEASE do something about her mic or whatever. With the new changes via the current Washington administration, I can’t get NPR on my radio, I have to stream it & I cannot with Windsor’s s’s.
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