I think with a lot of the newspaper and magazine people, we see a 

 very common old trick, and that is by cutting someone else down you 

 very often have a tendency to build yourself up. So how do we handle 

 the press in Wyoming? Very gently. Maybe that's also a mistake. We 

 avoid making telephone news releases, since we know they're going to 

 screw them up. If someone wants a release, we will take the time to 

 write it and give it to the individual. That way, when they mess it up 

 we can jump on 'em with both feet. But we're lucky, I've gotta say 

 this, I've been pretty mean. All of a sudden, we're getting some good 

 reporters and some good people in Wyoming. They're starting to be 

 concerned and they're starting to listen and starting to work. And I'm 

 all for journalism, I believe in it. It's my job. But I think it's time it 

 became responsible and I think it's time for outdoor writers to stop 

 begging. Maybe it's time for editors to start paying more. You got 

 that coming. But there needs to be some changes made. We don't 

 need to be concerned about the kind of car Bob Wambach drives, nor 

 his personal life. But there's a lot of those that we need to leave 

 alone, I think. But it doesn't make near as good reading. 1 think 

 that's all I had better say. Thank you. 



STEVE BAYLESS : Thank you, Bill. Our next speaker is Malin 

 Foster, who is Managing Editor of the Logan Herald in Logan, Utah. 

 And after talking to Malin about his background and so forth, it was 

 obvious to me that he has a deep sense of responsibility .. .a feeling of 

 responsibility to both the public and natural resource issues. 



Malin has been a journalist for 20 years. He worked for the Salt 

 Lake Tribune, the Desert News, the Ogden Standard Examiner and he 

 also worked for United Press International for three years in Helena. 

 He left full-time newspaper work for seven years, during which he was 

 a board member of the Rocky Mountain Center on Environment in 

 Denver. Also during that period he was engaged in environmental 

 communications consulting work and operated a small guide and 

 outfitting business. So with that I'd like to turn it over to Malin 

 Foster. His topic is "How Much Emphasis Can Newspapers Place on 

 Outdoor Reporting?" 



MALIN FOSTER : You didn't know it yesterday, but when you were 

 listening to the very interesting and provocative discussions we were 

 having on the Sagebursh Rebellion, there was a small drama taking 

 place in northern Utah. I learned about it about ten minutes before 

 the meeting was to start yesterday, when Bern Shanks came in and 

 said, "Malin, you gotta call Utah State University and get in touch with 

 John Flannery just as fast as you can." John Flannery is a journalist. 

 He's a writer for the USU Information Services Department. He had 

 done a news release based on Dr. Shanks' points of view on the 

 Sagebrush Rebellion, and you heard all that yesterday. And if you 

 haven't got the idea about what's happening here now, you can pretty 

 well get the clear picture by this headline: "SAGEBRUSH REBELLION 

 IS FUELED BY HYSTERIA." That headline, incidentally, appeared in 

 my newspaper the day before yesterday, and luckily I was up here and 

 my city editor. Bob Finley was down there. I called him after having 



