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b'Tom Sherwood on what he tells journalism students when asked about making Journalism a career:\\n\\nI tell every journalism student intern that I meet that one thing about being journalist, it opens doors to everything and anything that you want to see or do. I mean, I\'ve been places and seen things . . . I never would have access to had I not fallen into the news business."\\n\\nTom Sherwood, Analyst, WAMU\'s Politics Hour and Former WRC TV Politics Reporter and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen, starting part of what we hope will be a long fifth season. We are especially, especially... I mean this because I\'ve been trying to get this guy for two years, and he finally agreed to do it, to be part of Our Town, because he\'s such a big part of Our Town. That\'s my friend, and ex-neighbor, and a guy I\'ve admired for so many years. Welcome to Our Town, Tom Sherwood. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tI see you had to read my name, so, so much for that introduction. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWell, I could have called you Tom intro. \\nSherwood:\\tWell, that\'s true. Yeah, Intro Tom.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tIntro Tom. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tThank you very much for having me. I\'m sorry I couldn\'t come. I was busy in TV, but I\'m happy to be here today. \\nAtlanta and South Carolina | Tom Sherwood\'s Southern Family\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tNow, he was a TV guy and he\'s still a TV guy as far as I\'m concerned, because they miss him. Tom has a new life, and I\'m so delighted that he stayed in our town, because he could have moved on. Tom, you\'re a media guy. You grew up in a lot of media. How did you ever get an accent, like a southern accent? \\nTom Sherwood:\\tWell, having my mother give birth to me in Atlanta helped. I\'m a southern family, through thick and thin. Family members came from South Carolina. I think they were indebted people from England, who came over to America to-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tTo pay off the debt. \\nSherwood:\\tTo pay off the debts. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOh yeah. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tAnd some of them... My great-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWas it Oglethorpe, or something like that. \\nSherwood:\\tYeah, it wasn\'t any name like that. It\'s Sherwood. But anyways, yes.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tSherwood Forest. \\nTom Sherwood\'s Distinct Voice\\nTom Sherwood:\\tI have nothing to do with my voice. My brother, he\'s a year older. He has a completely different voice. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tPeople recognize the voice, Tom, of course because you\'ve been in broadcast air for years, and years, and years. \\nSherwood:\\tYes, I would never rob a bank-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWith a TV career. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tThe police will say, "Just go pick up Sherwood," because they would know what the voice was. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhy would a young boy from Atlanta, Georgia... How did you end up here? You went to high school and college in Georgia? \\nOn Growing Up in Atlanta, Georgia and Working for the Atlanta Journal Constitution\\nSherwood:\\tWell, I went to high school, and I kind of went to college. I think I was a freshman for six years at Georgia State. It didn\'t really work out. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s in Atlanta, right? \\nTom Sherwood:\\tYeah, we have very similar things. You got your start as an intern, or an office clerk at WMAL? \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI got started at the bottom. \\nSherwood:\\tRight. Well, right out of high school-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tRight out of high school. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tI worked as a copy boy-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tEastern High School. \\nSherwood:\\tFor The Atlanta Constitution. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThere you go, a great, great newspaper. \\nTom Sherwood:\\tYes. I saw an ad in The Atlanta Constitution, "Copy boys wanted," they didn\'t hire girls. I was a department store called Richs, which is like Woody\'s here in town. I looked up, and I could see The Atlanta Constitution sign. I thought, "This is kind of cool. I\'ll go see if I can work at the newspaper." They said, "Can you start tonight?"\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat is incredible.'