[speaker002:] so um I pretty much read the paper
[speaker001:] do you
[speaker002:] yeah read I catch the news sometimes uh but we're so busy usually I just grab the paper at work
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh we we and we get the really local papers here so can find out what the school board's doing and things like that
[speaker001:] yeah yeah uh I don't watch I don't watch any TV really um and I I don't subscribe to the paper but a lot of the people who I work with do and uh
[speaker002:] yeah I I like grab the paper like to see how my stock is doing and things like that because I don't always call my broker and things
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but actually now that I think of it the thing the place where I get most of my information is I have an hour commute in the morning and in the afternoon
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh so we listen to NPR a lot and we hear we listen to Morning Edition in the morning and Fresh Air and All Things Considered in the afternoon
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so uh and even if we're not listening to the feature stories we certainly tune in at the top of the hour because you got about six minutes of good news and
[speaker001:] uh-huh I guess I get most of mine um just from word of mouth just people chatting at work and stuff
[speaker002:] yeah I I'd like to get you know things little straight a little more from the horse's mouth although I dislike the way that the media for instance distorting the the campaigns like oh big surprise Clinton won in the South you know
[speaker001:] um-hum right
[speaker002:] you know this must mean he's the frontrunner now why because you know all of his region votes on one day
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] um but you know I I find especially NPR is fairly unbiased you know I use to watch CNN a lot when I got cable
[speaker001:] right uh-huh
[speaker002:] because uh they also seem to not lean one way or the other in their reporting
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh our local papers like the Boston Globe you know where you we have you know you've got the Boston Globe which is extreme in one way and the Manchester Union Leader which like supports Buchanan and things
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so between the two of them you know it's not a lot of and then you've got the Boston Phoenix Weekly with the nine hundred ads in the back you know but other than that there just isn't a lot of you know unbiased local print reporting
[speaker001:] uh-huh right yeah the the the constitution is is pretty bad too and and they it it just seems like they spend a lot too much time on trivialities and things you know they they emphasize the wrong things especially in the campaign
[speaker002:] yeah and and I I don't even bother with local news because it's it's like you know um I'm a pilot so I'm aware of how how they misrepresent you know it's like a guy would do a gears up landing and it'd be there was a crash landing today and our camera crew was there
[speaker001:] huh-uh uh-huh  um-hum
[speaker002:] uh you know they they or and then of course on sweeps it's how you can get cancer from eating common foods but we're not going to tell you during the thirty second spot you know tune in for a twenty seven part report over the next three weeks
[speaker001:] right  right
[speaker002:] um I really think that um you know you have to go to some uh place like NPR that doesn't have a vested interest in you know they don't really care about you know getting two hundred thousand people to watch their shows because they're funded by people who do want to hear this kind of news
[speaker001:] uh-huh right right
[speaker002:] and the other nice thing about my local uh NPR station is they also got monitor radio and the BBC
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] through yeah they do this this is basically our all news AM station 10A
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so what you get is you get uh they they've kind of picked up so you get like five AM they give BBC then you've got uh you've got Morning Edition from like six till nine then they pick up again with the BBC
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] then in the afternoon you get uh the NPR's talk show and then you've got uh Fresh Air at four All Things Considered till seven then you get Market Place then they give you BBC again
[speaker001:] um-hum what
[speaker002:] so it's really you know for they they've got a bunch of classical music in the afternoon but other than that it's just straight news reporting from about four different sources
[speaker001:] um-hum oh that's nice
[speaker002:] and you know it's kind of neat to see how the BBC reports things differently you know they they've got a much different view like reporting South Africa and the Middle East
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] um I find that NPR and the BBC has a much more global view than like ABC or one of the US ones
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but you know because you know I find that um a the the American uh electronic media is so uh ethnocentric
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] where you know they they they don't realize for instance that there's a recession happening in the rest of the world too it's not not just us lucky people
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] um so you know that's pretty much where I get my information from uh and you know I'll I'll glance through the Boston Globe to get the local news there and I'll glance through the uh like the Milford Cabinet uh the National Telegraph to get the really local news
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh really
[speaker002:] yeah it's like the Globe gives you like regional news uh and Boston news
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] like my fiance is telling me the Globe sucks uh and and then you get like uh you know the uh the Telegraph and the Cabinet is giving you like how your high school football team did and what's being voted on and you know we got our picture in the Telegraph in the in the Cabinet because we went to the school board meeting
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so you know that that's the kind of level of stuff you get there so you get a real diversity of coverage
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum