I’ve always been a news junkie, going back to my youth reading the Los Angeles Times, first for the Dodger scores and later for the hard news and entertainment stories. In the summer of 1975 after more than a month at sea working on a cargo ship in the Merchant Marine, I managed to find a newsstand (I think it was in Panama) that had a copy of the LA Times. Didn’t matter that the paper was more than two weeks old…I bought it and delighted in devouring practically every word, even remarking at the time how I’d missed the particular typeface they used in the publication.