not the single largest Denver market, but it's the largest state market. 

 KOA is doing both morning and afternoon call-in radio shows and it has 

 a ^emendous listening public. The Governor, two or three times 

 already, has taken one or two hours out to be on that show. A 

 number of us as cabinet members have also done so. University 

 people, a number of folks in a variety of businesses and governmental 

 officials in the state have also. It is a tremendous setting to hear what 

 the public is thinking and to respond to it. 



Those new format ways of dealing with issues seems to me to 

 provide the opportunity for candor, with reduction on the down-side of 

 bias, skewing and misinformation. I like those kind of formats. It 

 seems to me that all of this, and my interest in the level of candor and 

 people not being treated as mushrooms--to use the old joke, of being 

 kept in the dark and covered with B S--came from an experience I had 

 12 or 15 years ago in North Carolina. I used to compulsively sit down 

 when I got home at night, no matter what time it was--1:30 in the 

 morning, having driven back from Darango or something--to turn on 

 the television set and turn the dial all the way around the channels just 

 to see what was there. When I grew up there wasn't television and I 

 was like 15 years old before we had one in the house and it's still a 

 miracle to me that pictures come on that thing and that folks talk and 

 they're really there and I just like to see who's in the little box every 

 night. I may just take five minutes to turn around and it drives my 

 wife nuts but I think it's because she was born ten years after I was 

 and there was always television. She thinks God gave it to Adam at 

 the Garden of Eden, or whatever, but I think it's interesting. 



Anyway I was doing this one night in North Carolina and there is 

 an independent station in Highpoint, North Carolina that was doing an 

 interview debate show and it had a guy who owned an outdoor drive-in 

 movie that showed x-rated films. It had the woman who was head of 

 the Methodist Church Women of the Church for one of the larger 

 churches in Highpoint, talking about x-rated films at the drive-in movie 

 and the conversation was so alive that you couldn't help but be drawn 

 into it. It was no canned tape film or anything. It just really took 

 you into the thing. The guy was trying to defend his first amendment 

 right to show any darn thing that he wanted to at his drive-in movie 

 and she was trying to make the point that this was the work of the 

 devil and the whole town was going to hell if he didn't quit. There 

 was a point where he said, "Well, how madam do you know what's on at 

 my theater?" And she said, "Well, I just happened to be driving by one 

 evening where your theater is and I just happened to stop on kind of 

 this knoll of a hill that has some low trees in front of it. And by 

 standing on the hood of my car." At that point, you know, I just 

 totally fell out. The woman had obviously, in the middle of the night, 

 gone out, stood on the hood of her car and she wanted to see what was 

 going on. And then of course, she was morally outraged as she was 

 carrying on this debate with the guy. I don't know how they settled 

 the issue in Highpoint about the outdoor showing of pornographic films 

 but I want to tell you, the public not only got entertained, but it got 

 informed. And it seems to me that that environment for candor is the 

 way that the public administrator and the media and Joe-six-pack 

 sitting in front of the tube or reading his newspaper can keep this 

 nation healthy and going. Thank you very much. 



