David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust
Oct. 5, 2009 -- Hello, everyone. My name is Dave and I’m a news junkie.
"Hi, Dave," the room answers.
I come from a family of addicts. Even as a child my parents gave me books and magazines, and even a dictionary. So at this stage in my life I feel I’m too far gone for help. It started innocently enough, sports trivia, but before I knew it I was hooked on facts. I read encyclopedias in the dark under my blanket with a flashlight, and when I found a name that I’d never heard of I would remember it and study up on it.
Benjamin Disraeli, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon. Then I started having trouble in school. The teacher would ask a question and when I would raise my hand the teacher would say, "Would anyone besides David like to answer the question?" It was only facts that I was hooked on, and I wasn’t so bad.
But I was terrible in math, so didn’t that balance it out? I was ok in science; I knew that Madame Curie discovered radium and died from radiation sickness. I knew that Louis Pasture invented pasteurization and that the cure for small pox came from studying cow pox, but when you started to do the math problems, I became very quiet.
Then, when I was in high school I got a job at the high school radio station. News copy straight off the feed. Before I knew it I was main lining the Associated Press. Reams of copy and it was free!
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