Comments on: More on Bob Edwards being canned from Morning Edition

by: JL Strickland

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:15:55 +0000

Dumping Bob Edwards takes the cake. I was still ticked-off about the firing of Bob Villa from “This Old House.”

by: Marsha Gerace

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:58:46 +0000

You have hit it right on the head! I agree 100% and NPR will never see another dime from me! We just got XM Satellite radio and I can’t wait for Bob’s new show to start.

I graduated from college in 1979 and I have listened to Bob from Day 1; I don’t plan on changing now. I’ve hardly listened to Morning Edition since he left. Is it me, or has the show really taken a turn for the worst? I didn’t mind Renee Montagne on ATC, but she’s really starting to annoy me now. Steve Inskeep is OK, he was fine at WBGO in Newark and has been fine since he went National, but he’s not in the same league with Bob Edwards. (I miss Noah Adams too, maybe he’ll turn up on XM, also Alex Chadwick, he’s mysteriously disappeared.) I’m just waiting to see who else gets the ax at NPR. They better hope their McDonald’s money lasts a long time because they are going to be in for a rude awakening come fundraising time.

by: Russ Gifford

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:10:53 +0000

I had that fear. Two years ago, or more, my local GM told me “the powers that be” at NPR were “less than happy” with Edwards, and “would be more than happy” if they could get him to leave. I told her if they did, they might have cause to wonder who was leaving with him. She assured me that was the message the GM sent at that meeting, as well. Obviously, it was not loud enough.

I, too, can’t help but think the sudden wealth might make them feel secure enough to make moves they’d other wise dodge.