Bob Edwards

Journalist

1947-05-16

Quotes by Bob Edwards

• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

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• 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.

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• Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

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• 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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• 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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