station or the television station in such a manner that you don't put 

 them on the defensive. You might get together with the publisher or 

 the managing editor and say, "Look, I've got a problem with this news 

 refi*ase. It's ridiculous. First of all, what we need to do is straighten 

 out the facts and get the correct information into the paper. And 

 second of all, and most importantly, we need to see what's gone wrong 

 here. We need to see if there are ways that we can do this job a little 

 bit better." If you put newspaper editors on the defensive when 

 they're already on the defensive from seven in the morning until they 

 go home anyway--and my wife claims that it hangs over into the late 

 night--you're not really going to get very much done. I think that 

 there is a possibility for dialogue. And I'd appreciate any kind of 

 information or any kind of discussion that any of you might have about 

 this kind of dialogue. 



Now I've gone on and on about some problems here that have 

 absolutely nothing to do with how much outdoors news newspapers can 

 afford to print. I want to talk about that for just a minute here. I 

 think that outdoor recreation news is probably one of the most 

 important ingredients in any Rocky Mountain daily newspaper. Another 

 thing that you have to understand is that the editorial departments of 

 all daily newspapers are dealing wiht chunks of space in their papers 

 that are left over after the advertising department gets through. How 

 many people in this room have ever taken a tour and taken the time to 

 learn the nuts and bolts of how a newspaper is produced and 

 published? And there are some newspaper people here I know who 

 obviously would know that. Let me see the hands again. That's 

 admirable. I expected one or two. 



There are some technical problems involved in that and I think 

 that the attitude of many editors and may publishers today is that with 

 all of the problems that we've got going on in the Middle East, in 

 Washington, -Inere and there, we may not want to devote the space that 

 the public might want to have us devote to outdoor reacreation news. 

 Environmental issues, as far as I'm concerned, are the kinds of stories 

 that should be sprinkled all over the newspaper. The energy situation, 

 for example, is mainly an economic issue with a lot of politics involved 

 in it. Some of those stories ought to be on page one. Some of them 

 ought to be on the business page. We, right now, are sectionalizing a 

 lot of our environmental news and within the next six months we're 

 going to quit doing that. We've got too many stories that deserve daily 

 approaches in the paper, and I don't think that they should be 

 sectionalized. But outdoors, the hunting and fishing business, the 

 recreational vehicle, the mountain climbing, the backpacking and all of 

 that, is to a certain extent, entertainment news. The reason for that 

 is that tKat's the way that newspapers were posted for years and years 

 and years. 



Very, very few newspapers have really had the guts or have 

 really taken the time to get into the issues involved in this. If you 

 don't think that there are politics involved in hunting and fishing, you 

 had better take another look because there are. If you don't think 

 that there are environmental scientific issues to be dealt with, you had 

 better take another look. And there again, I think newspapers are 



