Listen to you Later, Mr. Edwards
4/30/04
For those of you who do not know, the long running host of Morning
Edition, Bob Edwards, has just done his last show. The powers
that be in the NPR hierarchy have re-assigned him to be a "Senior
Correspondent," meaning that he will still be on the the radio
just not as a host. Although I'm a recent defector to Morning
Edition (I just got into it in the beginning of the school
year), I will surely miss hearing Mr. Edwards soothing voice
in the morning. My radio would turn on precisely 7:00 am, and
I would hear snippets of news stories as
I drifted in and out of consciousness. I knew, however, that
when I heard Mr. Edwards say, "It is 19 minutes past the hour,"
it was time to get up so that I could catch the weather for the
day on TV. I do not know what drew me to set my alarm clock to NPR.
I think maybe I just fell asleep one night listening to the
classical music, then woke up to hear, "This is Morning Edition,
I'm Bob Edwards," and I was hooked. Since then I have become
an NPR junkie, listening to it on both my drive to and home from
school.
So what is it about Mr. Edwards that draws so many people to
him? Well, there is just something about that first voice
you hear when you wake up in the morning. Whether it be your
mother when you are little, the TV, or the radio, the first
thing you hear in the morning sets the tone for the whole day.
I've tried doing the normal morning show thing, in High School
it was Barsky and Stern in College, but nothing quite compares
waking up to Morning Edition.
So, Mr. Edwards has uttered his final words as the Host of Morning
Edition. I am only sorry that I did not realize what I was
missing out on earlier. That I never got to hear his Friday
conversations with Red Barber. However, as sad as I am to see
Edwards go, I do realize that life does go on. America will wake
up on Monday morning, and come 7:00 am, my radio will turn on
to NPR, and the day will start anew, as it always will.
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