home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990
/
1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
/
time
/
030689
/
03068900.063
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-09-17
|
1KB
|
17 lines
PEOPLE, Page 66For Rhyme And ReasonBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
On the radio, it's almost as if you can hear Charles Osgood's
bow tie. It's in the voice, the wit, the way he makes the news
rhyme. In fact, the bard of CBS News radio once taught an on-air
caller how to tie a bow. But it is the verse that remains Osgood's
trademark. Writing poems, he says, "has become part of my shtick."
Take this classic, for example: "Jiang Qing/ Is a mean old thing/
And she had a Gang of Four./ And China is very lucky/ That she's
carrying on no more." Last week, when Osgood won the Washington
Journalism Review's Best in the Business award for radio reporting
the second year in a row, he wrote part of his acceptance speech
in rhyme. For him, radio will always have it over TV. "I think
radio is a more visual medium," he says. "It uses the theater of
the mind. The TV picture is only as good as your reception." He
adds, "Without question, I look better on radio." So does the tie.