Bob Edwards

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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.

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

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

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.

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

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

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

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.