[speaker001:] as far as news and uh keeping up with it I get a subscription to Time Newsweek and US News and World Report and I also stay in touch with CNN whenever there's something interesting happening in the world
[speaker002:] uh-huh do you do you actually read all those magazines every week
[speaker001:] oh God I get a lot more than that those are just the news magazines that I get I barely have time I usually tear through um US News and World Report that's my least favorite I think I like Newsweek the most
[speaker002:] uh-huh well I uh I I keep up with what's going on by listening to the radio in the car and reading a newspaper daily newspaper and I I pretty much hardly ever uh see news on television
[speaker001:] yeah I I've if you're near Boston uh I I remember hearing in the car we can pick up WBZ pretty good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] out here in Rochester we I also get the morning paper here um we we're Gannett town so we have a morning and a afternoon paper both owned by Gannett
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I tend to read the morning paper just because it's more breaking news I also listen to short wave depending upon what the world conditions are like
[speaker002:] oh so you can pick up Radio Moscow or that sort of thing huh
[speaker001:] oh yeah Radio Moscow it it's gotten a lot stranger in the last several years it's they've added commercials and they have bad jingles and everything
[speaker002:] so it's pretty much like U S radio huh
[speaker001:] well that's what they're trying to emulate I think most people still head for the B B C World Service which uh I I like that for international news but sometimes it gets you know usually if something major happens now I head for CNN
[speaker002:] yeah that um the B B C World Service is broadcast on the F M band in near the Boston area
[speaker001:] oh yeah they have it's it's distributed through American Public Radio I guess and
[speaker002:] by our public radio station
[speaker001:] yeah they have a feed of that yeah you can also a lot of various C-SPAN has an audio service
[speaker002:] still
[speaker001:] which transmits the BBC World Service twenty four hours a day you know I in the only problem with that I have with getting the news from a lot of these places is probably the worst lately has become the newspaper because I I just despise fluff journalism
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know I mean Iraq is bombed but no you're not going to see that today because here's Janey age five on the front page blowing bubbles you know
[speaker002:] right or here's uh one presidential candidate candidate saying rude things about the other one's girlfriend or something yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I it it you know the worst of them all is USA Today which is I call it useless today the McPaper
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] it's great
[speaker002:] well they they um they have a pretty small vocabulary don't they they
[speaker001:] oh yeah it's about the six grade it's basically a newspaper for those that watch TV
[speaker002:] yeah that's true it's pretty tough to find objective objective straight forward news I mean the the BBC's got their own slant their basically you know they're they're I think they're addressing their U S service to to Brits living here
[speaker001:] but in yeah that that's pretty they have some pretty obscure international news I mean like coming up next a five minute report on Nepal you know
[speaker002:] yeah they do they do good stuff on Nepal and South Africa you can get good stuff on and you know India and but it's not necessarily close to stuff I'm looking for they tend to make fun of the U S a lot I think
[speaker001:] oh yeah it's they they have A Letter From America I think it's Alastair Cooke who um who's been doing that program forever who comments on what life in America is like and uh most British seem more amused than anything else
[speaker002:] well maybe they're right what the heck
[speaker001:] so yeah I I tend to we have cable here and that tends to be pretty good for news but I also have a satellite dish so I you can watch some pretty strange news things the feeds on there especially during uh the Iraqi war where you could hear the anchor people you know screaming four letter words poor Bernie Shaw
[speaker002:] yeah do they um do do you use any electronic type news services like a you know computer network news services anything like that
[speaker001:] um I I have a uh you know I I found out about the service on Comp Dcom Telecom so we have access to you know there's there's um Clara News and you can also get on CompuBucks and uh read the news wires on there which you know I appreciate that one if I want to search for a particular topic you know that I know
[speaker002:] you subscribe to Clara Net service then
[speaker001:] yeah well either that or you can go on Clara News and use it or I'm sorry uh CompuServe and use their executive news service if you want to follow you know certain key words and I use to do that when we were interested in following the cable industry you know you wouldn't see this stuff in the local paper
[speaker002:] right yeah yeah we don't get the where I where I work I don't we don't get the Clara Net stuff