Flashes of Panic

I drove to work this morning listening to Bob Edwards’ last Morning Edition. I’m a relative newcomer to public radio—I’ve only been waking up to Edwards for six or seven years, since I discovered that WHYY was the only eastern-Pennsylvania radio station with a morning show that wouldn’t make me feel like my brain was rotting from the second the radio came on.

Edwards takes vacations like anyone else, so for a few weeks it will probably just feel like another vacation. Clever of WFCR to run a brief pledge drive just before Edwards left, though. Lately they’ve been running promos featuring Edwards saying, “No, don’t stop pledging to your local station just because NPR has decided I’m too old!” Well, that’s not exactly what he says, of course.

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