  Doma Member Username: Doma Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2008 |
I read Freep.com and Detnews.com everyday. Somehow I missed the fact that Paul Harvey died over the weekend. Maybe because the Free Press story was titled "Longtime Radio Commentator Dies" and wasn't listed at the top of the page. I'm a reasonably young fellow, I only know Harvey for his entertaining "Rest of the Story" slot. I didn't know until after he died that he was considered a "Conservative". Is this why Detroit newspapers have largely ignored this story? Paul Harvey was a pretty awesome guy, there will never be another like him. It's a shame (if) the Detroit media purposely buried this story due to bias or political differences. If Bill Maher dropped dead, I would be (reasonably) saddened. | ||
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo Post Number: 514 Registered: 09-2008 |
The guy wasn't like Rush Limbaugh. The fact that he lasted so long tells you he struck a chord with a lot of people whether you were conservative or not. He did have a pretty good sense of humor. The paper is almost getting wafer thin on some days. They just don't print all the news that's fit to print. That's the main reason why I so often pay extra and pick up a NY Times. | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 958 Registered: 08-2008 |
Paul Harvey became much less a journalist and much more a reporter of cute and quaint stories. If you weren't in awe of his stories, he was of little interest. I compared him to Andy Rooney, not necessarily because they were exactly alike, but more because they each found a cute niche and exploited it. His 'shtick', much like Rooney's, wore out a long time ago. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1253 Registered: 10-2003 |
I believe, prior to Limbaugh, Paul Harvey had the largest radio audience in the country. I enjoyed him | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 2192 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gnome said it best in the non Detroit section. | ||
Al_t_publican Member Username: Al_t_publican Post Number: 153 Registered: 06-2004 |
Paul Harvey spoke out against Nixon's Vietnam war policies when we invades Cambodia in 1970, he was pro-choice on abortion, pro-ERA amendment, and took on the religious right. That's somewhat like me, libertarian, not soley conservative. | ||
Ktkeller08 Member Username: Ktkeller08 Post Number: 30 Registered: 10-2008 |
Like 1kielsondrive said, he was basically like Andy Rooney is to 60 min. Not to say that is bad because it's just amazing enough that these guys are still working as old as they are and I'll be lucky enough to just be alive by that age. On a personal note, I wouldn't give a damn if Bill Maher dropped dead. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2089 Registered: 10-2003 |
Paul Harvey and his "folksy" style annoyed the hell out of me. I especially disliked his pitchman-hucksterism being injected into the middle of news segments. You thought he was telling you about a news item, then realized he was selling a product. That said, RIP. | ||
Ktkeller08 Member Username: Ktkeller08 Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2008 |
Haha, yea I'm going to agree with Fury13 with the ad part. He did endorse a lot of horrible products. But like most of us, I think we shouldn't remember him for what he did in the last decade or so of his 50 or 60 year career, but what he did for the duration of it, which I think is mostly good. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 2023 Registered: 08-2006 |
I agree with you Doma, I enjoyed his program but would not have considered him a conservative based on his "rest of the story" program. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3954 Registered: 01-2005 |
On my many cross-country drives, it seemed like I always picked up a radio station that carried his show. It was always a pleasure to listen to him in those pre-satellite radio days, static and all. When I read of his passing, my many trips flashed past my mind. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1029 Registered: 12-2004 |
I don't know that I ever heard of Paul Harvey, yet I generally make it my business to know what's going on in the world. Too bad he died, but I think his body may have outlived his fame. | ||
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 190 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think if you were into radio, especially non-music radio at a certain time, you would have heard of Paul Harvey (unless you lived in a big city where he was not broadcast). I first heard him in the Western UP, where we would spend the summer with no TV. In the last thirty years, cable TV and the internet have splintered the mass audience and not everyone is aware of what's going on. In the late 60s- mid 70s, almost everyone of note would show up on network TV and gain more mainstream acceptance..... | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 669 Registered: 12-2006 |
They had a great tribute to him on the radio last night. | ||
Benfield Member Username: Benfield Post Number: 100 Registered: 06-2008 |
Paul Harvey pretty much made up his "newscasts." It was all bullshit. http://www.fair.org/index.php? page=1394 | ||
Newport1128 Member Username: Newport1128 Post Number: 271 Registered: 05-2007 |
What's wrong with a newscaster being "warm and fuzzy", as long as he/she gives us the facts? I'm sick and tired of today's news-ranters who inject their opinion into everything and try to tell us what to think, how to feel and what a bunch of idiots we are if we don't agree with their viewpoint. Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and the other old school newsmen gave us the news and let us make up our own minds as to how to interpret it. | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 672 Registered: 12-2006 |
One of the greats, who wasn't dictated to by NY or LA. | ||
Benfield Member Username: Benfield Post Number: 101 Registered: 06-2008 |
That's the problem. Paul Harvey didn't give you the facts. He gave you bullshit and dressed it up as the facts. | ||
Ggores Member Username: Ggores Post Number: 548 Registered: 10-2007 |
I associate Paul Harvey with tooling thru Ohio in the early 70's in the folks Malibu, no seatbelts... nothing but gas pedal and the floorboard and the road... watching telephone lines rolling by - mile by mile - and in the car radio "the rest of the story". Story-telling is what he did, methinks, and he done it good during the days when story-telling was still an art. Kinda like Ernie Harwell. It was called "radio". RIP Mister Harvey... I've still yet to buy a Kirby vacuum cleaner. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3958 Registered: 01-2005 |
Well, the whole world is bullshit, and that's a fact. | ||
Ggores Member Username: Ggores Post Number: 550 Registered: 10-2007 |
Heh heh, yes Ray - ... and that's... the rest..... of the story. | ||
Aha Member Username: Aha Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2009 |
Paul Harvey was part of that radio pantheon that featured Lowell Thomas, Gabriel Heater, Edward R. Murrow and others from an era where style and voice were the signature. The radio, in fact, broadcasting in general of today has nothing of this brand of personality. You may not agree with their opinions, but the passing of Harvey leaves another void in what broadcasting was all about...So long for now... | ||
Benfield Member Username: Benfield Post Number: 102 Registered: 06-2008 |
Really? You are comparing Edward R. Murrow with a snake oil salesmen who passed fiction off as the news. Paul Harvey is to radio what Jason Blair was to the New York Times. The man was a professional liar. | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 3460 Registered: 02-2007 |
Before neoconservatism, which Limbaugh championed, conservatives were not greedy jerks. To quote Garrison Keillor: "Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters flourished and higher education burgeoned—and there was a degree of plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today’s. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor." So Paul Harvey comes from the pre-asshole Conservative movement and should never be confused with modern, post Fairness Doctrine opportunists. RIP Paul. | ||
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive Post Number: 965 Registered: 08-2008 |
Well, I do agree Harvey had a distinguished voice. When I think of the Cronkites, Murrows, Harwells, Scullys, they all had outstanding voices. But I think part of that is at what age you start listening and for how long you listen. Most of those voice's are ingrained in my consciousness. I stopped listening to Harvey years ago. Not because of his politics, which I wasn't really aware of at the time, but because of his cutesiness. I'm not saying he wasn't a good broadcaster, and yes, he was a good story teller, I just didn't consider him to be a serious journalist. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19165 Registered: 11-2006 |
A now no longer living legend. |
