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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Aug 11, 2021

I’d like to finish with Conan’s sign-off from Talk of the Nation, on June 27, 2013, only eight years ago:

[I]n a minute or so, I will go back to where I started in public radio. I will be one of you again, a listener. Yes, a listener-sponsor, but a listener-critic, too. I will cry and laugh and yell at the radio. And we listeners have a vital function. It is our job to hold member stations and NPR accountable.

So right here, I form my own private compact with NPR and my member stations. I will listen and, yes, I will open my checkbook, but I need some services in return. Go and tell me the stories behind everything that happened in the world today. Explain why it happened, and how it affects our lives. Do it every day. Tell me what’s important, and don’t waste my time with stupid stuff.

Bye-bye. Signing off for TALK OF THE NATION and from NPR News, I’m Neal Conan, in Washington.

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/27/196282378/after-11-years-behind-the-host-mic-neal-conan-signs-off

NPR included these same paragraphs in its own online obituary. (I'd just posted this to Diaspora before crossposting to Mastodon.) "The message endures."

#radio #TalkOfTheNation #NPR #NealConan #StupidStuff

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Aug 11, 2021

Neal Conan, longtime host of NPR’s ‘Talk Of The Nation,’ dies at 71

Neal Conan, who spent 36 years with National Public Radio and 11 years as the host of the network’s Talk of the Nation died Tuesday in Hawaii of glioblastoma at the age of 71.

I met Neal almost 50 years ago, at a small, hopeless FM radio station in New York City, WRVR. Neal spent much of what would have been his college years, if he’d attended, working at New York’s Pacifica noncommercial radio station, WBAI, where he took his first radio job as an engineer. ...

A rememberance by fellow NPR announcer Robert Siegel.

After his departure from NPR’s national talk programme, Talk of the Nation, Conan returned to radio in his new home of Hawaii, and produced a podcast, Truth, Politics, and Power, which I recommend.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/08/10/npr-neal-conan-dies-npr-talk-of-the-nation

#obituary #NealConan #NPR #TalkOfTheNation #radio #cancer

Neal Conan, longtime host of NPR's 'Talk Of The Nation,' dies at 71

Conan's voice graced this network for many years in many ways, always in the name of wonderful radio. Former NPR host Robert Siegel, a longtime colleague of Conan, remembers his friend.

Doc Edward Morbius ❌Nov 13, 2019

Truth, Politics, & Power (podcast)

Neal Conan hosted NPR's flagship call-in programme "Talk of the Nation" from 2001 until its cancellation in 2013. I've just discovered he's been podcasting, or at least was, from January 2016 - December 2018. The show appears to be on hiatus.

But there are two years of archives of an critical set of issues from an expert host and team (ToTN's producer is on staff).

Strongly recommended.

https://truthpoliticsandpower.org

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