Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
Good things just keep happening.
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.
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.
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.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
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 were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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.
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
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.
