[Vision2020] Save Bob Edwards

[Carl Westberg]

A curious thing about the reasoning, if it's a youth movement thing.  This 
is radio we're talking about here, not television.  It's not like we're 
gonna hurl our scrambled eggs and coffee because we're subjected to seeing 
Bob Edwards's grey hair and wrinkles.  He's only 56, and NPR (thankfully) 
isn't Fox News.  This is just wrong.  If Bob Edwards goes, I'm switching to 
Rush Limbaugh. Not.                                                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                   Carl 
Westberg Jr.


>From: "Dick Schmidt" <dickschmidt@moscow.com>
>To: <Vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Save Bob Edwards
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:16:37 -0800
>
>Joan,
>
>Thanks for mentioning this again as I had intended to send an email and 
>finally did to morning edition at NPR. I think it carries more weight if 
>you give your name, address and phone number. I think Bob Edwards is 
>probably one of the most believable people in the news business.
>
>Dick Schmidt
>
>Joan Opyr auntiestablishment@hotmail.com
>Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:45:43 -0800
>
>Carl wrote to us all a few days ago about National Public Radio's 
>incredibly
>stupid, mind-numbingly short-sighted, morally reprehensible decision to
>replace Bob Edwards, the 56 year-old host of Morning Edition.  Apparently,
>NPR feels that it needs a fresh (read younger) host rather than smooth,
>comfortable, trustworthy Bob.  Like many -- like Carl, in fact -- I was
>outraged.  I wrote a couple of stinging missives to NPR's Jay Kernis, Bob
>Edwards' boss, and got back a lot of pap in response.  Today, I came across
>an online petition; perhaps it will have greater effect.
>
>If you're interested in signing, go to www.savebobedwards.com.
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>
>PS: I just checked my driver's license, and I see that 56 looms before me, 
>a
>scant 19 years away.  As I can remember exactly where I was and what I was
>doing 19 years ago, I'm well aware of the fact that time passes swiftly.
>One minute you're at a Bangles' concert wearing a pair of black parachute
>pants from Merry-Go-Round; the next, you're listening to Enya and shopping
>for khakis at Wal-Mart.  Surely Bob Edwards has ten or fifteen or twenty
>good seasons left in him.  Surely this is a nasty bit of age 
>discrimination.
>   Come now, my fellow over-thirties -- our ox is being gored!
>

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