Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep. – Bob Edwards
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
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
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
It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract. – Bob Edwards
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
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you’re wearing one, and I don’t. – Bob Edwards
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. – Bob Edwards
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. – Bob Edwards
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
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
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
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
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