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News is What I Say It Is
David Brinkley once told me his definition of news. “News,” he said, “is what I say it is.” Brinkley was not being arrogant. He and […]
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The New WENZ – Your Music Station
Before my television days, I was a disc jockey, first in Mt. Jackson, VA, at a country and western 1k daytimer and later at WENZ […]
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Memories 2
Never give up of trying to reconnect with someone from your past. During the Christmas holidays we hapened to be in the same town where […]
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Sailor Bob and Gilly Gull
My first job in TV was running the audio board from 3 to midnight at WRVA TV (now WWBT) in Richmond. I was in college […]
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Memories
It’s a song by Barbara Streisand. But it’s also something we all have that no one can take away from us. And there will come […]
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a Camping we will Go
I’ve been, sort of, a camper most of my life. From the time I was a Troop 7 Boy Scout in Luray, thru, as an […]
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Teleprompter (Early Days)
For many years, the typewriter was my main tool. When I first went on the air, there was no such thing as a prompter so […]
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What the heck is this?
This is the device I used for my entire news writing career. And it served me well. But you had to strike over or use […]
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Why Am I Here
I decided to do a blog after watching a tv series called “800 Words”. It’s about a guy who moves from Australia to a small […]
