at the same military base where he once “entertained the troops.” When his hearing problems also unravelled his efforts there, he threw in the towel, took a disability from service and dropped out of sight for three long years.
During this time he discovered the writing needs of the www as more and more quality articles and information were needed to fill the millions of web pages springing up online. Best of all, those markets offered him a “deaf friendly” environment in which to work. He began his new career using old skills to refocus his talents and adjusting them to the new technology and class of readers it presented. By swapping pen and paper for a keyboard and mouse, he positioned himself on the cusped of the new and exciting informational highway.
Leading to, at the time, a new’ digital online job’ as a telecommuter with CNN News of Atlanta he worked full time from home. The TV giants were beginning to realise that there was a market in the digital realms of society especially in the ‘chat room’ formats where instant viewer response became the new trend. Charles had ventured an idea of his own web space in which to produce short journalistic features, which today we call blogging’ but this notion was a little too far ahead of its time. Then News Producer Terry Irving, who had been impressed by Charles ‘Stone Age to Star Wars’ Article and had been watching and taking note of Charles work wanted him to operate an online interactive chat room for MSNBC’s ‘Don Imus in the Morning’ simulcast show and even better, loved the blog idea and the “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” was born lasting a grand eight years.
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