Wake-up call for Bob Edwards — and the rest of us
From The Charlotte Observer, Commentary by Ellen Goodman: The phrase that clanged ominously came from the spokesperson who described this exit as part of “a natural evolution” — a theory of evolution which many read as the “survival of the youngest.” The idea that NPR, of all places, was going to replace Edwards, of all people, with a younger anchor sent a chill of vulnerability down the spine of his baby boomer peers.
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