Until recently I have been a news junkie my whole life. As a child growing up during World War II, and my parents being European-born with families in Europe and the land of Israel. during that dark period our home was constantly tuned to the radio for the latest news bulletins. One of my earliest memories is hearing the shrieks and rants of Hitler over the radio. As I grew up, I became addicted to hearing the news broadcasts on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. Of course, in those years, 24-hour news broadcasts did not exist, so I only heard the news for five minutes at a time for eight or ten times a day. This sufficiently satisfied my addiction. I always felt that I was listening to actual news events, uncolored by political or social bias. This was of course a very naïve belief on my part, but like many addicts, I did not realize how I was being manipulated and influenced by the powers that be.
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