American - Journalist | May 16, 1947 -
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
Bob Edwards
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
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It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
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The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
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I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
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Public radio has always been so powerless.
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Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
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