Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards
Robert Alan "Bob" Edwardsis a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was the first broadcaster with a large national following to join the field of satellite radio. He gained fame as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition. Starting in 2004, Edwards then became the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 May 1947
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
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.
The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn't frequently let them back in.
We're going to have a lot of money against us. But we'll see how people respond and where they want the town to go.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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.
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.
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.