[speaker001:] so tell me where do you get most of your uh news information from
[speaker002:] well I I subscribe to two different newspapers the Gwinnete Daily News and the Journal so morning and afternoon and I guess that's where I get most of it and then I always whenever I'm in the car I'm listening to WGST or WSB and uh read the news uh reports on the computer networks and uh uh I'm kind of addicted to Headline News and C-SPAN and CNN so I get it from everywhere I guess but most of the details from the newspapers
[speaker001:] yeah sounds like it yeah a lot of people uh don't get any newspapers and you're getting two that's uh definitely kind of shows your interest in it
[speaker002:] yeah um
[speaker001:] so do you do that for uh because um the morning journal paper is got more of uh a liberal or type bias
[speaker002:] oh pretty much uh yeah I you know it in terms of the choice between the Journal and the Constitution I'd take the Journal because it carries more of the conservative columnists
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um and also didn't want to take two morning papers and since since I live in Gwinnete County I want to take the Daily News to get their Gwinnete coverage and it doesn't make sense to take two papers in the morning
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] taking the journal in the afternoon means you're get some of the some of the news up until their deadline which is about eleven or eleven AM or noon uh which you wouldn't get uh until the next day with the Constitution
[speaker001:] um-hum right so the uh Gwinnete paper that's owned by uh is it Wall Street Journal
[speaker002:] well New York Times
[speaker001:] New York Times okay
[speaker002:] and uh so  it's kind of strange they they're they're they're generally uh fairly conservative but some of the columnist they they publish are from the New York Times syndicate and from other newspapers owned by the New York Times
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so it's uh they tend to be really uh really liberal
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh and I I I actually think probably uncharacteristic for Gwinnete County but it it's still interesting to hear or to to read uh you know different perspective on issues
[speaker001:] um-hum so this something that you do uh just for your own personal interest it doesn't have anything to do with your job you're not in a job where you need to keep up on these current events
[speaker002:] well I do keep up on current events in the high tech industry particularly data communications for my job but uh main reason I keep I keep up on current events is because of my interest in politics
[speaker001:] okay uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm you know active in politics and uh uh
[speaker001:] oh really you going to run for elected office
[speaker002:] well I ran for State Representative in the election in nineteen ninety and running for probably going to run for State Labor Commission this year
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] kind of ambitious but
[speaker001:] yeah that's good how did you do in you your first uh run election
[speaker002:] well I um I I was I run as a Libertarian and uh it was a three way race I got eight percent of the vote which is not bad for a third party in a three way race
[speaker001:] um yeah for a third party right yeah and you probably uh you know more and more people are probably leaning toward that third party now the way things are going
[speaker002:] well I hope so the way that's becoming pretty clear that the other two aren't doing that great of a job
[speaker001:] huh right hum
[speaker002:] so where do you get your news
[speaker001:] uh I guess newspapers uh I get I subscribe to the morning um the Constitution um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] publication uh journal publication for uh I guess that would be more of keeping up in terms of the work that I do
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um magazines US News and World Report Time magazine uh a lot of
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I subscribe to several magazines too
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah and you know things like Sports Illustrated uh computer magazines uh uh I don't know if you read the National Review
[speaker002:] um-hum I subscribed to it at one time um but there was a period uh where I really felt that I was reading too much now now now I've got four kids and a fifth on the way now and it's hard to find time to read as much as I did
[speaker001:] oh wow um-hum
[speaker002:] so I've cut my monthly magazines back to just uh oh I guess three or four
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] things like uh uh Reason which a lot of people don't even they don't even know what it is it's a it's a Libertarian magazine but it's uh has a lot to do with uh free markets and privatization and things of that nature
[speaker001:] I I don't know what that is no um uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh the Freeman which is another uh Libertarian uh more of a philosophical uh type journal rather than a uh news sort of thing
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh oh a couple of others but uh I don't tend to subscribe to the the major news magazines or things like that
[speaker001:] um-hum so uh what you're in the you're an engineer
[speaker002:] yeah I work for uh uh