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Paul Harvey passes away
- Thread starter mrbeasley
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Paul Harvey, Good Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was more than a legend, he was the best in his field. He was one of the greatest news writers in the business. He could tell you all you needed to know about a story in one sentence. He knew how to use a pause and inflection and enunciation to make a point. He molded his news with a point of view, like so many of the 20th Century news greats. He always signed his photos, "Wishing you good news!" The one he signed for me that day in 1999 is one of my prized possessions. He was my inspiration as a kid and one of the few giants in the profession I learned as an adult. My heart goes out to his son Paul Aurandt and his family.
No, iusedtobesomebody, it's Paul Harvey...good night. He's with Angel, his wife of 68 years, who died last year.
Did middays at KEEE/KJCS back in the '70's... Paul Harvey came on for 20 minutes at 10:35 from the network, then there was a 5 minute show during the noon news break (tape delay). We did 'The Rest of the Story' during the 5 o'clock news break, too... later worked for the ABC O&O... I always felt if I was working on a station with Paul Harvey on it, it must be a pretty good station. His son wrote a lot of his stuff.. a very talented man in his own right.
Had the chance to see him in person when he made an appearance in Houston. Was in the mid-'80s and I forget the occasion, but the theme of the show was to honor the American military services. He was totally captivating. I was not aware that he had been doing the "Rest of the Story" item for as many years as he has. Have the vignettes ever been put in audio or book form?
In the 70's I was working at a station on the west coast and Paul Harvey came into town to speak somewhere and did his morning show and mid-day show from our station. It was very cool to meet him. Great guy, kind and uplifting. He came in with only his producer and only asked for a desk and a typewriter (remember those) so he could write his news. Then delivered it live in our studios. It was one of the highlights of my career to sit there and watch the legend at work. I will never forget it.
We all love Paul Harvey but here's the "rest of the story."
Paul Harvey was a great entetainer but not a journalist. He made up "facts" for his stories for dramatic effect.
Many of his "rest of the story" episodes were complete nonsense. He was an old school "news man" - cut from the same cloth of reporters who covered the Moonmen and spurred the US to liberate Cuba from Spain.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story or in the way of right wing talking points.
As people say the passing of Harvey is the end of an era - I say thank goodness.
Paul Harvey was a great entetainer but not a journalist. He made up "facts" for his stories for dramatic effect.
Many of his "rest of the story" episodes were complete nonsense. He was an old school "news man" - cut from the same cloth of reporters who covered the Moonmen and spurred the US to liberate Cuba from Spain.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story or in the way of right wing talking points.
As people say the passing of Harvey is the end of an era - I say thank goodness.
This wasn't CBS News we're talking about here, it was "Paul Harvey News and Comment" and he took responsibility for his facts and comments. Do you have first-hand knowledge that Mr. Harvey made up stuff? Either way, thanks for using a man's death to further your agenda.
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txnewsboy said:We all love Paul Harvey but here's the "rest of the story."
Paul Harvey was a great entetainer but not a journalist. He made up "facts" for his stories for dramatic effect.
Many of his "rest of the story" episodes were complete nonsense. He was an old school "news man" - cut from the same cloth of reporters who covered the Moonmen and spurred the US to liberate Cuba from Spain.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story or in the way of right wing talking points.
As people say the passing of Harvey is the end of an era - I say thank goodness.
Paul Harvey was doing his thing long before your so-called "Right Wing talking points" ever came along. Sure he had his point of view on the world in his programs... that, as Mr. Shiloh has already pointed out, is why it was called Paul Harvey News and Comment... in fact...even though he was a supporter of the Vietnam War...he did eventually come out and say something along these lines about Nixon's stance on the war..."I love you mister president, but you're wrong..."
One of the tributes online is done by his fill-in Gil Gross who said PH would often write stories so that the details were left to your imagination... his example was this ficticious story...
"John Smith decided that if birds could fly with only feathers and wings...that all he needed to fly from the rooftop was to paste on some feathers and strap on a big pair of homemade wings... John smith was 42..."
Nothing more was needed.
He also had a knack for creating new words that stuck in your head... referring to bumper stickers as the Bumper Snicker of the day.... and how about his use of the term infanticipating instead of pregnant... pretty clever to me.
As for the rest of the story... I can imagine some of the stories may have been embellished a bit for effect.. but he never claimed that they were biographies.. did he?
Finally... I was responsible for recording his early morning news for playback when I worked at KJCS in Nacogdoches in the late 70s and early 80s.. one morning I pre-rolled my reel to reel to make sure I didn't miss the program. In the last minute before his broadcast, with his mic already open on the network, you could hear him going through his vocal warmup exercises to help him enunciate properly and make his words even more easily understandable. I still have the tape of him clearing his throat then repeating T-D-D-T...TDDT... MNMO...MNMO...Then there was a slight pause before he opened the program with "Hello Americans... I'm Paul Harvey!"
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