The Atlantic Interview: Robert Siegel

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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For thirty years, Robert Siegel has given us the afternoon news. Having started his career in public radio when it was a scrappy enterprise, he's spent the past three decades shaping NPR as host of All Things Considered. He retired this week, at a time when NPR plays a critical role in educating the electorate. Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic’s editor in chief, turns the microphone on Robert Siegel for a change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.5	Robert Siegel, welcome to the Atlantic interview.
0:38.1	Thank you, Jeff.
0:38.7	This is the big time.
0:40.3	I finally made it.
0:41.2	So I don't want you to be nervous.
0:42.9	Actually, the truth is, I'm a little bit nervous.
0:45.0	I've never gone, I've never done this with you in this direction.
0:48.3	We've done it in the other direction.
0:49.3	You've done it in the other direction, which is nerve-wracking in itself, but we're very pleased that you chose to spend part of your
0:54.3	first day of retirement with us. Robert Siegel, as all of you know, was host for, I think it was
1:00.3	four score in seven years of all things considered, joined NPR in 1804. But I wanted to ask you,
1:09.2	why retire now?
1:11.7	And there's two parts to that question.
1:14.7	One is we happen to be in an extraordinary political moment.
1:18.8	That's fun for you to cover.
1:20.6	As a journalist, at least it's fun.
1:22.1	Maybe as a citizen, it's fraught.
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