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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.

Bob Edwards

Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.
BOB EDWARDS

Asleep Between Book Reading
Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
BOB EDWARDS

Children Parent Quality
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

Genealogy Human Impressive Slavery
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

Indiana Kentucky Rivers
I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
BOB EDWARDS

Able Anything Predict
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

Elements Excited Talking
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
BOB EDWARDS

Grandmother Opera Soap
I wake about 1 a.m. I’m in the office by 2 a.m. We’re on the air at 5.
BOB EDWARDS

About Air Office Wake
It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
BOB EDWARDS

Brain Madness Mediums
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
BOB EDWARDS

Class Encouraged Vocalize
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

Dry Organization Thinking Up
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you’re wearing one, and I don’t.
BOB EDWARDS

Care Looks Ties
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

Interview Issues Radio
People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
BOB EDWARDS

Ability Men People
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

Bed Home Noon
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
BOB EDWARDS

Everybody Hate Trouble
The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.
BOB EDWARDS

Differences Friendship Helping
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
BOB EDWARDS

Everything Listeners Radio
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
BOB EDWARDS

Earth Long Meek
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
BOB EDWARDS

Crazy Pals Radio

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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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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