The discovery of classified documents at President Biden's home and former office puts him in a tricky political situation. Not enough kids here?" NPR was founded with a mission, not just a business plan: to deliver news and share stories that can move and enchant, in a diversity of voices from around the nation and the world, in a way that is fair, nonpartisan, professional and accessible. There are already children in this world who need us right now. As narrated by Simon, Cosby refused to comment, only shaking his head no when prompted. forces. "[18] Journalist Jon Schwarz from The Intercept criticized Simon on Twitter, referencing his comments on Fahrenheit 9/11 to accuse his journalism of allocating excessive benefit of the doubt to the U.S. ''We got teased endlessly. Excellent, Beautiful, Jia-Mei Simon. The officials had given her a name: Feng Jia-Mei. As Mr. Simon arrived, he hit his head on the taxi door and walked into the party bleeding. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to. It is a marvel of technical finesse, close observation, and a perfectly pitched heart." He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. [28], Jack Brickhouse, a Chicago broadcaster (19161998), is Simon's godfather, whom he refers to as an uncle. (He did an obituary for her on the air. He will receive the Order of Lincoln from the State of Illinois in 2016. Simon has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times of London, The Guardian, and Gourmet among other publications, and won a James Beard Award for his story, "Conflict Cuisine" in Gourmet. But wizardry does not always deliver. [16] In 2004, Simon criticized the film Fahrenheit 9/11 for perceived inaccuracies and what he characterized as an unfairly harsh depiction of the U.S. . A little girl named Excellent-Beautiful. Laurie Halse Anderson just called the book, "Amazing. In his book, he writes about the experience of Martin Simon, the adopted son of the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon (no relation to Scott Simon). Simon also wrote the book Just Getting Started with Tony Bennett. ''We both felt it, and we acted on it.''. A National Weather Service official says a twister carved a 50- mile path across the state. ''That's exactly the reaction I want from my life's companion. Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of comedian Ernie Simon and actress Patricia Lyons. Most of us had probably tried to start families in the traditional manner. He has also received the Barry M. Goldwater Award from the Human Rights Fund. "We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. NPR was not well known when we opened the first bureau in America's interior. A month before, this moment couldn't have happened fast enough. He adds, "If you prick me, I'll bleed Chicago Cubs blue.". Philly native & @dailypenn alum. We had endured three days of what we had come to call "adopto-tourism" together ("You will now visit the Pearl Museum and Gift Shop! Breathtaking. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. Caroline Richard Simon holds Elise Simon, 11 months old, on the day her adoption was approved by Chinese officials in Nanchang. NPR was not well known when we opened the first bureau in America's interior. [But] she just didn't become happy about it for another couple of days. We opened the network's first bureau in a war zone El Salvador, in 1982. Featuring interviews with leaders and emerging voices, we look at the last 50 years of NPR, examine its historical weak spots and hear how change is being made in the present and decades ahead. "No comparison whatsoever," he said. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. I began reporting for NPR from Chicago in the late 1970s, about crimes, corruption, blizzards, mob hits and political ferment. [8] His father died when Scott was 16,[9] and his mother later married former minor league baseball player Ralph G. Newman, an American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago.[10]. Family pharmacy, builder at odds over planned location. He co-anchored PBS's "Millennium 2000" coverage in concert with the BBC, and has co-hosted the televised Columbia-DuPont Awards. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. We explore these changes and what role the network. NPR's Scott Simon talks with writer John Hendrickson. NPR turned 50 this week. But we cannot imagine anything more remarkable and marvelous than having a stranger put into your arms who becomes, in minutes, your flesh, your blood: your life. [12], In May 2010, he was conferred Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Willamette University, where he was that year's commencement speaker. I think I would have had a tougher time holding my tongue.". ''She's the brilliant one,'' said Muriel Price, one of Ms. Richard's sisters. Part of a collage of images of Scott Simon reporting for NPR News from Cuba, San Salvador and Iraq. Father: Ernie Simon Mother: Patricia (Lyons) Simon Wife: Caroline Richard adopted daughter: Elise Simon Born in 2004 adopted daughter: Lina Simon Born in 2007 References Because Martin's birth certificate stated that he was Native American, that ethnicity became a large part of his identity. They inspired his New York Times bestseller book Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime. Carolinne Simon, 28 years of Moorestown, NJ passed away on October 6, 2022. we'd say, "When would you like to hear it?". We ate and talked and tried to amuse, divert, and win over our daughter with songs, food, and funny voices, leaving her sullen and unmoved, all the while asking ourselves, "What have we done? ("Pregnant! Jokes are sometimes the only sensible answer to some of the astoundingly impertinent questions people can ask, right in your children's faces. When people called to ask, "What time is All Things Considered?" I had a glass of wine, my wife had a beer, and we toasted our daughter. Basically, its college radio for adults. We sure need them.". ''It is always interesting to pay a visit to it. As we say in this business, there is more to come. Aren't they impossible? We saw smiling middle-aged women in white smocks holding babies, cooing, singing, and hefting them in their arms. At some point, after all the intimate injections and intrusions, and the hopes that rise and deflate, many spouses look at each other across a field of figures scratched on the back of an envelope and ask, "Why are we doing this? Caroline Richard Simon. I've interviewed all three. I don't mean just that it's amazing, terrific, and a wonderful thing to do. Log In or Sign Up Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard See Photos Caroline Richard I tried to point a video camera, snap pictures, roll audio, and hug them, all at the same time. From the Feng township. And then, as we laughed, cried, and hugged her even more fiercely, Feng Jia-Mei opened her small robin's mouth and burped up a geyser of phlegm, fear, and breakfast. January 14, 2023 NPR's Scott Simon asks De'Shawn Charles Winslow about his new novel "Decent People," which is set in the same fictional North Carolina town as his widely praised debut. My wife and I, not having had children in the traditional, Abraham-and-Sarah-begat manner, have learned to make jokes about the way we've had our family. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. The drinks flashed through us like tap water. January 14, 2023 The UAE has picked a top oil executive to lead global climate talks this year. We saw Elise. We looked at the other happy new families across the room. Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Unbroken and Seabiscuit, called the book "poignant, funny, intimate, and unforgettable." She immediately became our child, and our identity with her deepened every day and deepens every day even now. It was a reminder of something we do uncommonly well at Richmond. And his kids are in their 40s. When she met Mr. Simon, she lived in a tiny Chinatown apartment in Manhattan, furnished with a futon, flowering plants and piles of books. (She had been an intern at NPR in the early 1990's, when Mr. Simon was away covering the Persian Gulf war.) A month before, this moment couldn't have happened fast enough. January 14, 2023 The Sundance Film Festival will take place in person next week after streaming online for the past two years. Simon has hosted many television specials, including the PBS's "State of Mind," "Voices of Vision," and "Need to Know." As if there would have been anti-aircraft shells without the US war", "Governor Rauner Announces Recipients of 2016 Order of Lincoln Award", "NPR Host Scott Simon: Riding on Airwaves", Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, "Scott Simon Releases First Novel: Pretty Birds", "Reflections on Welcoming a New Family Member", "NPR Host's Lunch in London Intersects Spy Case", "Review of "Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime" by Scott Simon", "Scott Simon On Life With The Cubs And The Manager Who Cursed Out Chicago", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_Simon&oldid=1128460699, This page was last edited on 20 December 2022, at 07:18. NPR was not well known when we opened the first bureau in America's interior. Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. Each layer smelled of coal smoke and pee. NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Simic, former U.S. poet laureate who was born in Belgrade right before World War II. Simon is a native of Chicago and the son of comedian Ernie Simon and Patricia Lyons Simon. In the wake of Buffalo's recent tragedy on the east side, WBFO brings you a program that unapologetically confronts what led to the shooting. [12] He guest-hosted BBC World News America, filling in for Matt Frei,[citation needed] and anchored NBC's Weekend Today in 199293. [13], After the September 11 attacks, Simon spoke and wrote in support of the "war on terror", publishing an op-ed in the October 11, 2001, Wall Street Journal titled "Even Pacifists Must Support This War. We told him that our daughter seemed inconsolable. Not enough kids here?" His hobbies are books, theater, ballet, British comedy, Mexican cooking, and "bleeding for the Chicago Cubs." He has thrown out the first pitch at Wrigley Field (low and . we'd say, "When would you like to hear it?". "), during which we talked about the sundry things strangers do to be companionable. Our daughter looked up into Caroline's unfamiliar face without warmth or disdain; one more stranger was handling her. always gripping, always tender, and often painfully funny. Scott Simon is one of Americas most admired writers and broadcasters. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. It is a marvel of technical finesse, close observation, and a perfectly pitched heart. Windy City, Simons second novel, is a political comedy set in the Chicago City Council. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved. Simon says the decision to adopt changed his life -- but it wasn't easy. He is married to Caroline Richard Simon, and their daughters are Elise and Paulina. Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, an essay about the joys of adoption, was published in August 2010. Conflict Between Israelis and Palestinians Continue In Jerusalem, What You Need To Know About The CDC's New Mask Guidance. His novel, Pretty Birds, the story of two teenage girls in Sarajevo during the siege, received rave reviews, Scott Turow calling it, the most auspicious fiction debut by a journalist of note since Tom Wolfes. They have two daughters, both adopted as babies from China: Elise, in 2004, and Lina, in 2007. I've been fortunate to play a small part in NPR's growth. Today, the initials NPR mean something special to tens of millions of Americans for whom we provide not only the news, music and entertainment, but a life's companion. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. "Feng Jia-Mei?" Back in our hotel room, Caroline zipped, snipped, and unbuttoned four layers of Chinese clothing. Well, he had seen that several hundred times before. Now I have to let her go the same way", read one tweet. Simon is a native of Chicago and the son of comedian Ernie Simon and Patricia Lyons Simon. ''She goes over our heads a lot.''. At the age of 50, NPR has a renewed sense of purpose: to appeal to and sometimes challenge an audience that is more diverse in all ways, and help reach across some of those divides. What kind of crib did you get? I have been with the place long enough to understand why all those great talents sometimes grimace to be told, "I've listened to you since I was in the backseat of my parents' car.". First the puffy quilted pink coat came off. When people called to ask, "What time is All Things Considered?" It is as poignant and tender and wise as Tuesdays with Morrie, with the added virtues of being unflinching and, quite often, very funny." Let's make a switch right now.' We looked at the women in the smocks and then realized -- they held our children in their arms. We also found 57 background checks for Caroline Richard, including criminal records . Days later, they had their first real date, at a tiny downtown bistro, talking in the back garden until closing time. NPR is in North Korea as the country celebrates 70 years of existence. We had Cheerios, wipes, and diapers in our hands. Baby, baby, our baby. January 7, 2023 In the film, "The Pale Blue Eye," a detective investigates a series of murders linked to his own past alongside a young Edgar Allan Poe. It is as poignant and tender and wise as Tuesdays with Morrie, with the added virtues of being unflinching and, quite often, very funny." You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios. So: this is where we are going to become parents. "How much did they cost? Shigu, our trip coordinator, came by our room. Simon has been with NPR for over four decades, beginning in 1977 as Chicago bureau chief. I first heard of National Public Radio when it broadcast the Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal live, in the summer of 1973. His career also encompasses writing and television. Affirming. We also know that the hardest parts are still ahead. It is a marvel of technical finesse, close observation, and a perfectly pitched heart." Not much of whatever it was. Adoption is a miracle. Simon has won every major award in broadcasting, including the Peabody, the Emmy, the Columbia-DuPont, the Ohio State Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Sidney Hillman Award. January 14, 2023 The discovery of classified documents at President Biden's home and former office puts him in a tricky political situation. As I say that, I have just delivered the eulogy at Dan Schorr's funeral and he was even older when he became a father and he was told the same thing and he lived to the age of almost 94. Courtesy of Scott Simon January 14, 2023 The NFL playoffs kick off today; the Australian Open opens tomorrow; and the Olympic figure skating doping scandal continues. As we say in this business, there is more to come. "How much did they cost? He died this week after a long career of writing and teaching. Our baby was famished. Her small cheeks burned so, I wondered if her tears would sizzle. She inhaled a soft egg custard and plain white rice and stopped crying for a few moments, sobbing being hard to do while you are swallowing (though she tried, she tried). He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. '', Then, in April, Caroline Richard, 33, visited NPR to talk about a documentary film she was working on. We've ripped a baby away from the only place she's ever known, to bring her some place on the other side of the world that might as well be the moon. Some interviews have been difficult, or painful like when we asked Bill Cosby about the sexual assault allegations against him and he stayed silent. It wasn't until later in life that Martin finally met his biological mother and discovered he wasn't Native American at all. 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