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.
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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.
I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
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.
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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.
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.
I’m a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
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.
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you’re wearing one, and I don’t.
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.
The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises...
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.
It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.