Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 16, 1947
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize..
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 we….
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't..
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 even….
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different th….
The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises..
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep..
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy..
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 any….
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.….
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 s….
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract..
Public radio has always been so powerless..
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?.
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again..
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5..
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 ….
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so..
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth..
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it..
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there..