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Texas Country Reporter turns fifty in October 2022. Each week until then, we’ll share classic episodes from the show’s history and behind-the-scenes reflections from TCR’s creator and host, Bob Phillips. When I was eighteen and studying journalism in my first semester of college, I met a man named Eddie Barker who came to speak to my class. He was a television legend in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, the news director and evening news anchor on the local CBS affiliate station, and I thought working for him would be the key to my success. I asked him for an apprenticeship. Yes, an apprenticeship. You don’t hear that term much these days (I myself had picked up the word from the classic 1940 Disney short “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”), but it was perhaps one of the most significant…

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