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Come April 30, throngs of early morning commuters and National Public Radio (NPR) fans will miss a familiar voice. NPR has asked—read commanded—Bob Edwards of “Morning Edition,” long a morning-radio staple, as much a part of each a.m. as grapenuts and coffee, to vacate his post as host to the popular daily show as part of a larger effort to update the network’s content and style. Edwards, who has served as host since the show’s inception in 1979, will be sorely...
...calming contrast to parental nagging that both informed and entertained. Edwards presented this generation with the sharp reality of the world in a kinder, gentler manner than the daily newspaper and without the flash and dumbing-down of the night-time news. Whether parents weaned them on NPR at a young age or they discovered it as questioning youngsters in search of good reporting and interesting stories, generation Y’s news-followers came to rely on Edwards as a friendly presence in a hectic world...
...NPR claims that Edwards was losing his edge, increasingly out of touch with today’s fast-paced, youth-oriented world. But the network never consulted Edwards about his style in order that he could try to cater to a younger generation. Nor did NPR officials ask their audience, many of whom are members of a more forward-thinking age, whose cultural touchstones come from MTV and “Sex and the City” rather than Studio 54 and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Indeed, many of the youth NPR hopes...
...he’s capable of generating. They might consider, too, that Clear Channel doesn’t further their cause when it decides to drop a talk show two days after its host scorns the president, effectively transforming part of the broadcast on the remaining stations into an NPR fundraiser-style segment. And this drive won’t be over until the Bible-toting administration gets out of Stern’s way—and out of everyone else’s, for that matter. Unless Bush keeps in touch with what really matters to his people...
...Allow me to introduce myself.? I?m a public radio commentator, a 42 year-old mini-van driving mother of two.? At the time of my firing - and I realize this may sound like a joke, a Saturday Night Live caricature of the nervous, twittering ladies of NPR but here goes . . . When fired for obscenity I was in the middle of a five-part series on knitting.? The kind of you do with yarn...