[speaker001:] Steve yeah how do you keep up on current affairs
[speaker002:] well Frank um generally I keep on up oh listening to radio news uh listening to some television news uh the rest of it I guess what everybody's talking about um
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] I guess if part of me says if it's that important I'll find out if I don't find out it's not that important into the way that it affects my life right now um
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's a good way of looking at it
[speaker002:] that's I guess that's primarily why um we do go through periods where we uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] do get the local newspaper um you know and for for a city of a hundred and eighty thousand people the newspaper is still very slanted and uh you know you end up and you say well yeah okay and you
[speaker001:] slightly liberal to the left or to the right
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] what'd you say
[speaker002:] oh I would say maybe it's a little morbid to the right now you know here we kind of talk more liberal and conservative rather than left right but uh it's a fairly liberal minded um
[speaker001:] I see huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] but you know it's uh you tend to only get the one side you don't get kind of uh a broad coverage of of the reality of what happened
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh well I get my uh news from really from all the sources uh I will say probably radio is uh is a prime source because I like to listen to radio news uh on the hour for world news and then it the station I listen to usually have local news after that and I also watch the TV for for news and I take two newspaper uh the local city newspaper here in Portsmouth and also the state newspaper which is the Manchester Union Leader so uh you know that's that's how I stay informed plus from talking to people as you say if it's real important you're going to hear about it from other people besides
[speaker002:] right yeah I I guess I would think that you have a bit of an advantage in that you do have a an option for something that is more local and then something that is more statewide
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um here I guess really we're dealing with uh the regions being I I hesitate to say sparsely populated but really you know we'll get to one region that's uh several hundreds miles square and we've only got a few million people involved
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh you know so regional coverage uh is pretty sparse and so we our next step from local tends to be virtually national or international
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and and I suppose you might compare it to you don't hear very much North Dakota news
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] um you know so
[speaker001:] but you do but you do I I take it
[speaker002:] uh we we can at times you know being you know being right on the north edge of North Dakota we
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh we actually uh some of the current events are more an aspect of uh some uh sports interaction between North Dakota and Saskatchewan
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh it's not hardly an current event as such but um Minot does a lot of advertising to uh bring tourist industry down
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] um so you know we kind of get stuck with uh you get your local news or you get your news that's based nationally and uh so then it has
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] anything that intends to be local interest uh is quite localized Toronto Montreal Ottawa Vancouver that kind of thing you know so you're getting uh
[speaker001:] um-hum well we have a sports interaction with Quebec mainly uh Montreal uh the teams there uh both baseball and with uh with hockey of course and with Quebec and uh Quebec City
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and also uh one of the uh TV TV stations uh from Canada is on the cable system in this area uh from Sherbrook
[speaker002:] oh yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] so uh we we do have some news from from Canada from time to time
[speaker002:] yeah it's uh yeah and you know I suppose of our television we with our cable system we get uh three Detroit stations and we've got three Saskatchewan stations with
[speaker001:] do you have CNN do you have CNN
[speaker002:] uh yes we do we also have CNN which
[speaker001:] that can be an important source of news international
[speaker002:] yes uh yeah I I actually I really enjoy their format and so it is it can be quite informative on an international basis uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so um I guess that would probably be my primary source for international news but uh not on a
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] regular prescribed basis tend to uh or I happen to be there and I'm and uh