Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

From 2007: In the 1970’s, my dad never made any purchase of substance without consulting Consumer Reports. Vacuum cleaners, toaster ovens, window air conditioners, used cars -- he never made a move without CR. In those pre-Internet days, he collected the magazine’s back issues the way I collected comic books. I just kept my comics a lot neater and more organized than he did his magazines. We’ll talk about that and more today with my guest Kim Kleman, the new Consumer Reports editor