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Trib Ex-Publisher Recalls Paul Harvey

Posted by DFO

March 4, 2009 1:38 p.m. • 7 comments

I had perhaps 10 minutes with Harvey, before scurrying back to work. Harvey had two things to impart. One: Young man, you’ve got an alcohol drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Neither is good for you. (I agreed to half, putting out the cigarette.) Two: Young man, I’d like to offer you my newspaper column, now carried by some 250 newspapers. Although I wasn’t the decision-maker at that time, I demurred on behalf of the Tribune, saying his radio broadcasts were sufficient. (Actually, he was better on radio than his print column, in my opinion.) At that time, Harvey was in his 50s, lean and tall and balding. His voice was a marvel, whether in conversation or on the radio/Butch Alford, former publisher of the Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: What do you recall most fondly re: the late Paul Harvey?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

richr on March 04 at 1:49 p.m.
Harvey got a shout-out Monday in Olympia from WA state Sen. Mark Schoesler:

“I recall my younger days on an old tractor with only AM radio…Every day at noon, I could hear Paul Harvey,” said Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville.

Harvey, 90, died Saturday in Arizona.

“When there weren’t a lot of other choices on talk radio,” said Schoesler, “he was the guy.”
DFO on March 04 at 1:59 p.m.
Hey, Berry Pickers, put your hands together for my Eye On Olympia bureau buddy Rich Roesler who just checked into the Huckleberries Online blogosphere with his first comment. Rich cut his teeth in the Idaho office before joining the military Stars & Stripes newspaper and finding his true love in the Orient. He has been covering Washington state politics in Olympia superbly since he returned to the SR fold. In Rich & Betsy Russell, we have two of the finest state capitol reporters around.
Arpie on March 04 at 7:37 p.m.
It’s corny as all get out- as so uch of Paul Harvey’s stuff was, but he read something once about loving his wife that has had a good and profound effect on the way I love mine. Paraphrasing, he talked about seeing all women through your wife and how a wife is all women to her husband. It is too true in a good relationship.

Mostly I will remember his ubiquitousness. What a one man franchise.
Escapee on March 04 at 11:36 p.m.
I’ll just remember his voice always being there…and I’ll remember him informing and entertaining me; I never heard a Paul Harvey broadcast that was dull. Maybe he was a little bit corny, but that’s kinda how people used to be before the Information Age hi-jacked our minds…

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.