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I’m from a newspaper family. I remember grade school days in Columbia, Missouri, sharing the morning paper with my parents and sister. My father was getting his doctorate in journalism and wrote his dissertation on Sunday newspaper magazine supplements.
How to do news was his discipline. He wanted to share how news got made and delivered with us. Dad established a family "section trump" rule and enforced it — sometimes reluctantly.
If one of us had read a section and wanted to read another, we could simply tap (sometimes call out) the other and immediately get their section in return for handing over the section just read. Dad thought this up as a way to make the newspaper something to be shared, discussed and appreciated. It was kind of like a card game: Some liked current events, others sports or business and world news.
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The internet has changed news delivery but not the interest in it. I enjoy the feeling of holding the Tulsa World in my hands. Seventy some years later I credit my father for this, and for making reading and learning interesting in so many ways Letters to the editor are encouraged.
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