[speaker001:] so it says how do you keep up on news um I suppose I had longer to think about it so I'll just uh answer the question I
[speaker002:] right  okay
[speaker001:] I get almost all well the majority of my news from radio and news letters which is kind of unusual but it's a pretty cost effective or time effective way to do it because on TV you have to to put up with all the happy talk and the commercials
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and um then on uh like newspapers well they just take too long to read I use to read news papers very faithfully but I just ran out of time so I tape record National All Things Considered from National Public Radio
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and I I when I ride the bike my ride my bike to campus I I have it on on my walkman and that gives me one side of the news and to get the other side I get a bunch of news letters from organizations which are mostly on the right
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh okay
[speaker001:] and how about you
[speaker002:] uh that's interesting I've I've never heard of the news letters angle I'm also an All Things Considered person Weekend Edition whatever
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] uh I generally enjoy it although sometimes they have a tendency to do twenty minute features on things I'd just had soon not hear for about two minutes
[speaker001:] hm all the all the AIDS cases in Miami for example
[speaker002:] yeah yeah exactly
[speaker001:] yeah that's right well I mean the the only thing about them is that they the the their news uh most of the time slanted tends to be pretty slanted to the left and you just can't tell really what's happening for I mean take for example the economy where they've not not not them alone but most of the news media but probably they more more uh strongly than a lot of the others have all these programs about bad economic news and as soon as the news gets good it just disappears you know just just don't report it to the same extent that they do about the bad news
[speaker002:] yeah although I think that's probably uh true of most news coverage in general good news isn't news right
[speaker001:] hm I don't know but I think that for example after the uh after the uh Iran Iraq War when uh oil oil prices came way down I think it would have been news that oil company profits decreased as I'm sure they did you just didn't hear about it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so um I I get pretty upset with them actually a lot but the only thing is there's no other game in town except for monitor which is you you know about um about the Christian Science monitor program
[speaker002:] uh yeah on television or radio
[speaker001:] uh no no on on radio they have an hour a day news program but that's
[speaker002:] yep oh excuse me I was just going to say up here they they broadcast that I think between five AM and six AM which is a a little before I get up so I usually miss it
[speaker001:] I'm sorry right yeah that it I I don't think they well I mean I know they don't broadcast it here at all and the only way that I can ever listen to that is when I'm in another part of the country so
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh you know I mean they're they're really the only game in town and if you want to get different news for an hour or a little bit more than an hour that's that's about the only way to do it which I find kind of unfortunate now there is the McNeil Lehrer Lehrer news hour but that's on TV and then you've got to be sitting there
[speaker002:] yeah like like you I often I rarely spend time watching news on TV the uh I gave up on network news years ago and it just doesn't usually work out I have time to watch something more in depth like McNeil Lehrer so
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] for me it's pretty much a diet of uh All Things Considered and I like to look at the Wall Street Journal at work which uh I think does a fine job it too has a slant but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah well at least it's not the same slant is is All Things Considered huh
[speaker002:] yeah exactly and
[speaker001:] so that's that's true yeah but now I like the Wall Street Journal if I subscribed well let's see if I subscribed to a newspaper I probably would get it it's it'd be that or USA Today but um they they have good in depth articles mostly on things that have to do with you know credit cards or other things relating to to financial things or or financial planning but they also have some good in depth articles beginning on page one
[speaker002:] yeah I think uh what is it the fourth column of page one is uh kind of famous in it's own right just for human interest stories or business interest stories I mean
[speaker001:] um-hum right I was discussing actually one of those stories with I just happen to I don't know how I acquired a Wall Street Journal it just happened uh last month there was a story on recycling uh I think actually that was a column one story though
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh that talked about the way that uh some communities are trying to recycle so much that they don't have anybody to buy the stuff from them to reprocess and in one locality I think it was Portland ended up burning the stuff some of it some of it because there's nothing else they could do with it
[speaker002:] right back to square one
[speaker001:] yeah so it was it was you know good to find out a little bit more than than you would in certainly in any story on network news I mean not just that was the only thing but it was it was good uh discussion of the markets for various recycled products
[speaker002:] yeah and that's that's the kind of thing the Journal does best I find I don't have time to read through the whole thing certainly but I find if you just