You didn't have to like him or his politics to listen. The sonorous quality of Paul Harvey's voice and his never failing hook at the segue just made you want to listen.
Bloggers here and everywhere could learn from his style. It had human interest. It had a flavor that couldn't be found on any other broadcast. And oh so important: it was brief.
His political opinions would make any lefty cringe, but you just didn't care. It was the tid-bit of information, the pause and the promise of just a little bit more on the way that made you listen. A story about some common sounding event that ended uncommonly. A story that called to you in a pre-blogger's world, not to write in a comment, but to take off with the rest of your day and remember a bit of what you heard. Play it through and think of it. Blog comment on it in your head.
And that's the rest 
of the story.
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Don't agree with a lot of his opinions, but he was an icon in the industry.
It was always amazing to me that he continued doing it for as long as he did. He's one of those guys like Casey Kasem, Johnny Carson, Larry King, and Dick Clark that just seemed to always be there—a piece of the very fabric of traditional America.
May he enjoy the rest of the story in peace.
Well, perhaps.
Isn't it interesting that most of us rarely think of how we SOUND to people? And that we can make improvements to the presentation of our speech? Simple things like opening the back of your throat a bit more when you speak, enunciating...lost art? I hope not. I work on it.
I didn't care if he didn't vote the same I did. He never called me an idiot for my political beliefs, he wasn't a mean guy.