At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
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My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.
My father was a journalist.
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.
But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.