My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
My parents were Democrats.
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.
I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.
No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.