When I worked in Los Angele... by Charles Kuralt, an American Journalist

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“When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.”

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Name: Charles Kuralt

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Sep 10, 1934

Date of Death: Jul 4, 1997

Profession: Journalist

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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

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