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November 12, Tom Jones. Al Tompkins. Kayla Steinberg. When I first knew him, while we hosted a WRVR news program together, he used to wear a railroad engineer's cap. Last year, a few of us NPR old-timers gathered on Zoom and took turns explaining what had hooked us on radio. Neal didn't invoke the great broadcast news oracles of our youth.
He was a high school senior, spending a lot of time at the office of his physician father who, Neal recounted, "had an FM radio so he could play easy-listening music to drown out the screams of his patients. But it was on that radio that he heard something different — WBAI, a public radio station in the middle of a fundraising drive.
You heard women's voices very unusual in those days. You heard Midwestern and Brooklyn accents, people with passion who cared about what they were doing and wanted to involve me. And in , he joined NPR, where he held an astonishing variety of jobs. He was, at various times, the line producer and executive producer of All Things Considered.
In , he ran NPR's coverage for a year as news director. As a reporter and host, he covered confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominees, two Olympic Games, President Bill Clinton's impeachment and presidential debates. Abroad, he won a handful of awards for his coverage of wars in the Middle East and conflict in Northern Ireland.
She reminded the audience that NPR has no advertising, no political agenda. Indeed, the responsibility of reporting the most horrific news events has fallen to Hansen and other weekend NPR reporters, including the attack of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and many civilians in Arizona four months ago. We try to be right. Though the fanbase for NPR may be of an older generation, the institution that Hansen leaves is a multi-generational one, with more youth at the helm as engineers, journalists and musicians.
It is a place where humor, humility, empathy, civility and rationality reign. The wisdom Hansen exudes in regards to the crises the organization is facing elegantly demonstrated these values. For fans, the appeal of NPR is in the subtlety, humor, intelligence and style of its production. Liane Hansen will always be an emblem of these attributes; she will always be known as a journalistic force that helped lay the foundation for the next generation of radio journalists.
Dear Liane, I remember your broadcast, that one almost a year ago when you said you would be retiring. You have been a my companion, my fellow-weekend-traveller, along with Will Shortz, of course, and Scott Simon, lo, these many years. Like you I have two adult children in their mid-twenties.
Like you I am interested in an eclectic mix of subjects and people and just life itself. You have made my life richer, more interesting, sillier, and just much more fun than it could ever have been without you.
I love the musicians you have brought into my home, the writers, the thinkers, the stories. And the places you have taken me. But it is the stories I love most. Thank you, Liane. You have made my weekends a delightful interlude filled with the poetry of life. I will miss your Sunday voice.
I wish you all the very best.
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