Speaking As Journalists

It was Michael Savage I had spoken to on the air one of the most listened to radio talk show hosts not too far from Russ Limbaugh in ratings.  San Francisco isn't such a bad city for learning the craft of the talk show host filled with visions of the news and of journalism.  And so in a round about way I have dealt with professionals  who know the trade of the news while I remain but just the man in the crowd who listens to the news reports in whatever way such news stories capture my  interest and thus I am prepared to discuss the news reports with the closet set of human ears available in my presence from the recreational tennis player to my former co workers and yes I say my former coworkers rather than colleagues where few of them fail to qualify for the Jeopardy Television Quiz show including myself.  In my mind Michael Savage is an intellectual having authored books himself with not a bad success rate.  But I was prepared to give my two cents worth and talk about Norman Mailer in my opinion the most successful and famous writer of my time if not all time because of the modern times he  represented and when growing up in the fifties and sixties I would see  him quite frequently on television and I was at awe the way he spoke about  his ideals as presented on talk shows.  It wasn't just  because he was my favorite writer in fact I never read his works and I read very few books.  But  I did  talk to Norman Mailer on the air which was very important  to me for when I meet a very famous person on the air and succeed in dialogue I feel a sense of  accomplishment as I did when I played tennis.  Winning  more than half your engagements isn't so terrible.