When I first got into this business, a friend of mine told me I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers. No one mentioned television.
On Friday, I was asked to be a panelist on a political forum for the three Clayton County candidates taped at WPBA in midtown Atlanta and aired Sunday.
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