The year I became focused on news reporting, 1956, was an important year: My wife was born, Israel and Egypt went to war, and Budapest erupted against Russian occupation. I was unaware of the first event, but my friends and I tried to get near a radio for news updates at the top of each hour. I was 11.
I have read that what interests a child at that age foreshadows a lifetime interest. From then on I become a news junky. How amazing that a birth, unbeknown to me in 1956, would start a chain of events resulting in my unofficial journalism apprenticeship at the hub of newspapering.
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