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Bob Edwards
American
Journalist
About the author
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.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Word
#Help
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.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Work
#Road
#Driving
I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Future
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Conservative
#News
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.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Work
#News
Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Work
Public radio has always been so powerless.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Public
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#People
#Ability
#Man
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Now
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Will
#Friends
#Faults
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Time
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.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Work
#Will
#Money
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Class
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Office
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Popular
#Judgment
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Time
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,
American
Journalist
#Home
#Bed
Good things just keep happening.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
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.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Being
#Living
#Slavery
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#World
#College
#Women
#News
#Civil rights
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Kentucky
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Want
#People
#Jokes
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Ignorance
#Learning
I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Being
#Talking
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
Bob Edwards,
American
Journalist
#Reading