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Pete Seeger Wanted To Be A Journalist

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MR. TAVENNER: Mr. Seeger, prior to your entry in the service in 1942, were

you engaged in the practice of your profession in the area of New York?

MR. SEEGER: It is hard to call it a profession. I kind of drifted into it

and I never intended to be a musician, and I am glad I am one now, and it

is a very honorable profession, but when I started out actually I wanted to

be a newspaperman...

Instead of joining the media, he became a media critic, telling David Guistina of Albany public radio station WAMC.

"It's hard for me to talk about the media without getting angry. Because if the United States or the world goes down in disaster,  I would blame the media first of all, because the people running it are intelligent people.  They know very well how evil they are. And when they say, "Oh, I'm just giving the people what they want." Sure--so do the drug pushers."

Ting-a-ling--ling, city desk!

Hold the press, hold the press;

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