OT: Robert Siegel to Retire

[tomcat]

Those of us who listen to NPR's "All Things Considered" have been accustomed to hearing one of the great voices in news -- that of Robert Siegel, who turned 70 this week and is retiring next year. Whether you were privileged to listen to a good NPR station that created local programming and carried a lot of public affairs material, or a not-so-good one that used most of its broadcast day to play music -- usually classical -- and ran national news during drive time, you could count on Siegel to ask interesting questions and deliver news that just plain sounded good.

Now I'll have to get used to someone else. Dammit.

 

[Wally East]

It took a while to get used to Bob Edwards having left Morning Edition, but, eventually, it happened (more or less). Doesn't make it any less sad though.