Bob Edwards Quotes

United States, Journalist
May 16, 1947

Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He gained reputation as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition. Starting in 2004, Edwards then was 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. Those programs ended in September 2015.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Bob Edwards
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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- Brain

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

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- Guy
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

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- Time
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

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- Up
- Home
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.

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- Up
- River
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.

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- World
- Women
- College