[speaker001:] well I've recently dropped my subscription to the local paper well not exactly local it's a pretty big one the Atlanta Journal Constitution because I was thoroughly and totally disgusted with the quality of the paper was really pretty poor and I couldn't see spending half an hour a day looking through that
[speaker002:] yeah I did the same thing actually I uh don't have a I'm not subscribing anymore
[speaker001:] yeah I try and watch the news as well we get uh cable here and watch Headline news but it's such a I don't know there's really very little depth to it they seem to be really out to try and entertain more than uh you know pass on any real information it's pretty trashy I'm not happy with it
[speaker002:] are you unhappy with the uh with the how should I say it uh the one-sidedness of it or or the
[speaker001:] uh the I think more the uh the just the the real lack of meat behind it I think there was an article in some local news magazine recently that mentioned it talked about the uh uh level of uh reading ability or something or other and things like President Bush's uh statements to the public and they were comparing him with Michael Dukakis back during the old uh the the last election nonsense and they were talking about how Dukakis his statements were like in a tenth to twelfth grade reading level while Bush's were down around an eighth grade level and by that uh being able to convey to that larger much larger of an audience you know he was supposedly that much more an effective communicator and I think that's the same problem with the news is they're trying to communicate with maybe so many people that it's just coming out really pretty poor
[speaker002:] my my problem is that they just don't uh how should I say it I I can either get uh things on one side or the other but not uh a meaningful discussion
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] that relates to well how should I say I either get these highly polarized things
[speaker001:] yeah I agree
[speaker002:] and sometimes they're I say okay we're going to we're going to do uh uh we're going to be fair so we're going to present two highly polarized articles which which is uh better than than one but uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah that's like uh trying to maintain a temperature in your house by running the heater and the air conditioner at the same time
[speaker002:] so uh anyway so we're uh one of the problems the other problem that I have is that that uh as you said uh a lot of the articles are they're either fluff uh well actually out of the press they're they're fluff or they're uh pretty shallow but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] course I have I also have the option and I guess you do too of signing up for one of these uh specialty magazines which is like in the case of uh science you know you sign up for uh
[speaker001:] yeah they are good
[speaker002:] Nature or something like that but
[speaker001:] I'm surprised at the the the range and quality of things that are out there like Scientific American there's such a broad uh spectrum of science and yet it's really in depth at the same time
[speaker002:] but when it comes to news uh it's a I find it I I think the reason perhaps for that is that the uh the uh press like everything else is is becoming a uh how should I say is becoming they're not neighborhood uh press anymore
[speaker001:] yeah and national
[speaker002:] they're worried more they're more like U S A Today type things uh pretty shallow and and can we make it uh and they're run by you have ten newspapers that are run by uh
[speaker001:] held by the same company
[speaker002:] uh  yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I agree we recently had Newsweek at the house but went ahead and dropped it decided it really wasn't what we were looking for and we started subscription to U S News And World Report but it hasn't started arrived yet going to try and evaluate that you know another interesting source of news is the is E-mail the network news do you get that
[speaker002:] oh yeah that's yes that's one of the most interesting that's how I found out about this
[speaker001:] yeah me too I really if if I when I move when I go to my next job I'm really going to be uh upset if I don't have access to that
[speaker002:] well there are some places here in town uh for people that are uh having uh withdrawal pains so to speak uh there's a bookstore that has a uh uh subscription type thing where you can pay the guy forty dollars a a year which is pretty small potatoes
[speaker001:] oh that's cheap and you get to call in across a modem
[speaker002:] yeah call in on the modem and you can read your news I mean read your mail and uh and uh look at the all the different internet uh
[speaker001:] oh man
[speaker002:] uh groups
[speaker001:] excellent yeah that really seems to be a a one of the cutting leading