Paul Harvey was a story-teller. He built up a fan base before twitter, blogging, websites and everything else we have in this technological age. In fact, he rarely gave any interviews or released any archival recordings of his shows -- what he did do was communicate.
Listening to NPR yesterday, they had a few clippings from his shows and they ended their show All Things Considered with this sound bite from Paul Harvey:
It is for us that one must grieve tonight for a generation which has so refined its intellect that it can split atoms and communicate with the moon and yet remains at the mercy of its own undisciplined emotions. If the world is one day destroyed, it'll come just like this, you know. It'll not be the H-bomb that did it, it'll be the greed or the fear or the hate that set it off.
Paul Harvey, good night.
He was speaking that evening after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He didn't go on about his policies or the tragedy of it. What he did do was use his words to convey a meaning that went beyond just simple communication. I grew up listening to Paul Harvey. I remember listening to the news as I did my chores on the farm and hearing a lot of the stories he would tell. While I disagreed a lot of times with some of his political thoughts, I enjoyed listening to him.
The world lost a great communicator this weekend and to honor him I just wanted to say....thank you Paul Harvey, good day.
-Travis
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