Famous radio broadcaster and commentator Paul Harvey has died at the age of 90.
His "news" program, which was sprinkled with commentary, was a fixture for years and years and years. He liked to report on the offbeat as well as the big stories.
The one thing I couldn't stand about Harvey's radio program was the fact his reports and the commercials, which he did, were not separate. He would say "page one" or "page two" or whatever, and I guess that indicated to listeners more astute than I a commercial was coming up, but it drove me absolutely batshit crazy. When he would pitch a product, it sounded like it was a regular story.
Harvey was known as a political conservative, but to his credit he did criticize American involvement in Vietnam and suggested Nixon resign, so he wasn't all bad.
As a trivia note, the late televangelist, Garner Ted Armstrong, patterned his delivery on Harvey's.
Harvey's wife, Angel, died last year.
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