Don Gonyea's Country-Western Daze
Hotline recently profiled NPR’s White House correspondent Don Gonyea, a veteran of the automobile industry beat before arriving in Washington.
We find out in the profile that Gonyea’s most embarrassing on-the-job moment came in his first radio job at WVMO-FM in Michigan (“perhaps the worst station in the history of commercial broadcasting”) where he was hired as a country-western DJ.
“Very early on in that first job — before I started doing news — I found myself hosting a live broadcast at a car dealership in my hometown.
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