{"id":372,"date":"2004-03-29T22:39:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=372"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:37:39","slug":"bob-edwards-pushed-off-morning-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2004\/03\/29\/bob-edwards-pushed-off-morning-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Edwards Pushed Off Morning Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Edwards will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/display_pages\/features\/feature_1785829.html \">leaving his position<\/a> as host of NPR&#8217;s <cite>Morning Edition<\/cite> at the end of April &#8212; involuntarily, it appears. It&#8217;s something of a shock to imagine <cite>Morning Edition<\/cite> without him. He&#8217;s literally been the voice of the show since its inception in 1979. <cite>Morning Edition<\/cite> and Bob Edwards are some of the earliest memories I have of news media; the theme song and his voice emanating from my family&#8217;s ancient Grundig radio (wish I had that radio now) were the soundtrack of our morning routines as we prepared for school and work.<\/p>\n<p>NPR seems to be systematically cleaning house in terms of on-air talent. Sending the old nags out to pasture might be more along the lines of how management thinks of it. Younger voices on <cite>All Things Considered<\/cite> and other shows are apparently bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2004\/mar\/bedwards\/kernis_letter.html\">&#8220;unique freshness and spontaneity to their NPR hosting.&#8221;<\/a> Whatever. I don&#8217;t want more freshness and spontaneity with my mornings. Bob Edwards has been doing just fine by me.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got feelings one way or the other on this change, send a note to NPR at <a href=\"mailto:nprcomm@npr.org\">nprcomm@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Edwards will be leaving his position as host of NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition at the end of April &#8212; involuntarily, it appears. It&#8217;s something of a shock to imagine Morning Edition without him. He&#8217;s literally been the voice of the show since its inception in 1979. Morning Edition and Bob Edwards are some of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2004\/03\/29\/bob-edwards-pushed-off-morning-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bob Edwards Pushed Off Morning Edition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-60","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}