so tell me where do you get most of your uh news information from
well i i subscribe to two different newspapers the Gwinnete Daily News and the Journal so morning and afternoon and
i guess that's where i get most of it and then i always whenever i'm in the car i'm listening to WGST or WSB and uh read the news uh reports on the computer networks and uh
uh i'm kind of addicted to Headline News and C-SPAN and CNN so i get it from everywhere i guess but most of the details from the newspapers
yeah sounds like it
yeah a lot of people uh don't get any newspapers and you're getting two that's uh definitely kind of shows your interest in it
yeah um
so do you do that for uh because um the morning journal paper is got more of uh a liberal or type bias
oh pretty much uh yeah i you know it in terms of the choice between the Journal and the Constitution i'd take the Journal because it carries more of the conservative columnists
uh-huh
um and also
didn't want to take two morning papers and since since i live in Gwinnete County i want to take the Daily News to get their Gwinnete coverage and it doesn't make sense to take two papers in the morning
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taking the journal in the afternoon means you're get some of the some of the news up until their deadline which is about eleven or eleven AM or noon uh which you wouldn't get uh until the next day with the Constitution
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right
so the uh Gwinnete paper that's owned by uh is it Wall Street Journal
well New York Times
New York Times okay
and uh so
it's kind of strange they they're they're they're generally uh fairly conservative but some of the columnist they they publish are from the New York Times syndicate and from other newspapers owned by the New York Times
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so it's
uh they tend to be really
uh really liberal
uh-huh
uh and i i i actually think probably uncharacteristic for Gwinnete County but it it's still interesting to hear or to to read uh you know different perspective on issues
um-hum so this something that you do uh just for your own personal interest it doesn't have anything to do with your job you're not in a job where you need to keep up on these current events
well i do keep up on current events in the high tech industry particularly data communications for my job but uh main reason i keep i keep up on current events is because of my interest in politics
okay
uh-huh
i'm you know active in politics and uh uh
oh really
you going to run for elected office
well i ran for State Representative in the election in nineteen ninety and running for probably going to run for State Labor Commission this year
uh-huh
kind of ambitious but
yeah that's good how did you do in you your first uh run election
well i um i i was i run as a Libertarian and uh it was a three way race i got eight percent of the vote which is not bad for a third party in a three way race
um
yeah for a third party right
yeah and you probably uh you know more and more people are probably leaning toward that third party now the way things are going
well i hope so the way that's becoming pretty clear that the other two aren't doing that great of a job
huh
right hum
so where do you get your news
uh i guess newspapers uh i get i subscribe to the morning um the Constitution um
uh-huh
publication uh journal publication for uh i guess that would be more of keeping up in terms of the work that i do
uh-huh
um
magazines US News and World Report Time magazine uh a lot of
yeah
yeah i subscribe to several magazines too
uh-huh yeah and you know things like Sports Illustrated uh computer magazines uh uh i don't know if you read the National Review
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i subscribed to it at one time um but there was a period uh
where i really felt that i was reading too much now now now i've got four kids and a fifth on the way now and it's hard to find time to read as much as i did
oh wow
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so i've cut my monthly magazines back to just uh oh i guess three or four
sure
things like uh uh Reason which a lot of people don't even they don't even know what it is it's a it's a Libertarian magazine but it's uh has a lot to do with uh free markets and privatization and things of that nature
i i don't know what that is no
um
uh-huh
and uh the Freeman which is another uh Libertarian uh more of a philosophical uh type journal rather than a uh news sort of thing
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and uh oh a couple of others but uh i don't tend to subscribe to the the major news magazines or things like that
um-hum so uh what you're in the you're an engineer
yeah i work for uh uh
