My first day in the UK was the day of the attempted coup in Russia in 1991. The first news report I saw was Newsround. I was blown away at how concise, informative, and calm the report was and how it didn't talk down to kids. The US would be a different country if we had grown up with it.
Oh, we went the other way in the end, toward the US end of the spectrum. Listen to BBC Radio One’s NewsBeat, it can only be described as “news for imbeciles”.
I stopped listening to Radio 1 in 1995. I'll give them credit though, the day Freddie Mercury's death was announced I wouldn't have made it through that day without the Radio 1 DJ's giving listeners the opportunity to air their grief.
Hey! I broke that story! My career peaked 34 years ago.