[speaker002:] um I find that my main source of information on current events is conversations with other people I often find myself going oh is that right I didn't realize that it happened yesterday
[speaker001:] oh really so you do you uh don't pay attention to uh primary sources
[speaker002:] no not not on a regular basis
[speaker001:] like TV or oh that's interesting
[speaker002:] yeah I uh have frequently decided just that I would just go ahead and read a paper every day but I haven't really done it as often as I I intended
[speaker001:] what about television
[speaker002:] um I just don't watch much television I'm usually I usually don't get home until after the evening news is over and I'm usually in bed by the time the late news starts
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but I um I do watch some TV and and sometimes there'll be if it's some big news with like with the primaries and things like that they would run little banners across the bottom of the TV screen
[speaker001:] what about the gulf war
[speaker002:] um I I worked with a guy who was in the who had just gotten out of the army and he told me he kept me up to date on what was going on
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] how do you keep up on current events
[speaker001:] oh well I'm pretty much of a space cadet a zombie I really don't know much what's going on uh I guess most mostly of what I get is from the news from the excuse me from the newspaper I don't have a television so that doesn't help
[speaker002:] do you feel like you keep up sufficiently I mean are you as caught up with it as you'd like to be
[speaker001:] um I get a daily newspaper and um I think newspapers are better then television for in depth news they uh the television uh actually is good in uh uh particularly when we're you're talking about personalities because you can get a heck of a lot more through uh complete audio visual presentation like for example in the political debates and what not
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] than you do through distilled string of words uh in the newspaper but actually for indepth information the newspaper newspaper is definitely better uh because the television just presents highlights and doesn't really go much indepth can't really because they don't have the time
[speaker002:] right right I guess I'd have to agree with you I hadn't really though of that but I certainly
[speaker001:] seems seems and when I'm on airplanes I will use I will read news news magazines uh that my son likes news magazines but uh I I guess I just never get around to reading them
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] it's sort of a tradition to read the newspaper over breakfast but
[speaker002:] is that what you do
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] read your newspaper over breakfast and
[speaker001:] yeah sort of of  sort of a relaxing time
[speaker002:] well yeah um do you listen to the radio much
[speaker001:] nope nope I think radio is in our house more of a source for music in quotes
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I don't I don't listen to the radio but my son does of course he's thirteen and his idea of music is not quite the same as my idea of music
[speaker002:] um yeah I get I get a little bit of news from the radio just they'll have hourly updates on some news caps
[speaker001:] oh yeah well when I'm driving in the car that's right sometimes uh well driving in the bay area is risky in the since that you may run into uh traffic problems
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I will tune in to news uh station where they give every ten minutes they give traffic information and uh as a sort of a side effect I get news that way
[speaker002:] right um I would think even the traffic I think of the traffic updates as news also just because there I guess they qualify as a current event
[speaker001:] well I guess you're right nothing more current than uh uh nothing more current and nothing more news worthy than uh traffic problems if at least not if you're a driver
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so uh I didn't even think about that
[speaker002:] I guess um I would think that would be probably on a I guess as a percentage of the population that would keep up with something I bet the traffic conditions is probably number one
[speaker001:] um-hum well it's a beautiful day here in uh California I'm standing outside of a phone booth you know when you call in you're supposed I guess you're supposed to call from different numbers so
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I call from a bunch of uh pay phone pay phones and whatnot so the news the news the current event news in California is that we had rain yesterday and uh it's sort of a cloudy I would say broken skies mostly almost not quite overcast but almost overcast and uh that's your current current event news cast from um