[speaker001:] All right. I guess tonight's subject is to discuss current events and how we keep up on current events, and if we're
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] satisfied with, with the, uh
[speaker002:] That's,
[speaker001:] coverage that we receive.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Um, thinking about it, some of the ways I try and keep up on current events is, uh, I enjoy reading the newspaper, but, uh, quite often don't have time to read all of the newspaper, and so, uh, I enjoy watching some of the T V highlights and also, uh, some of the news periodicals, uh, weekly magazines, and, uh, at work I also have, uh, management summary reports that, uh, give basically a lot of the current events. Uh, how about yourself?
[speaker002:] Well, I'm like you. I don't, I don't, I like to read the paper but I basically don't do it every day,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] and I, um, I usually watch, uh, either GOOD MORNING, AMERICA or the TODAY SHOW, every morning
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] while I'm, you know, whatever I'm doing, I watch that. I usually watch the news, either at, you know, early evening or at ten o'clock
[speaker001:] Right, right.
[speaker002:] so I get it from T V a lot. I get TIME MA-, I read TIME MAGAZINE [lipsmack]. Um, that's one I read pretty regularly.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah. Okay.
[speaker002:] And, uh.
[speaker001:] You think that that's, uh, pretty adequate coverage and you get.
[speaker002:] The thing about it, you know, now that I've fo-, found, is that we get such good coverage on T V, or at least such, I don't know, attempted thoroughness
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] of coverage, by the time you get the TIME MAG-, MAGAZINE,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] there's nothing in it you don't know.
[speaker001:] It's historic events, huh.
[speaker002:] Right. Then you can just sort of have pictures to go along with it or something, because really, I've thought lately, there's nothing new in the TIME MAGAZINE.
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] You know, it's, it's, basically you've heard everything
[speaker001:] Yes.
[speaker002:] and, uh, you might, you might get a little more thorough, uh, account of something, but really, um, I don't know. So I get most of mine from television
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I would say.
[speaker001:] Um, I found out too, that, uh, quite often if I see something on television that I want more in-depth, uh, understanding or, or get, want to know more about it, that the, the newspaper or, uh, I read NEWSWEEK, can give you a better and more thorough coverage of what I've heard on T V, but, uh, um, I found out that also on, on T V that you can scan through a whole lot of different things on C N N and, and like you said, the, the news shows that are, that are happening, and you can read some more about it if you want to. Um, I found out, though that, or I feel that a lot of the stuff on T V and the newspapers is negative. There's an awful lot of negative news or bad news, or, or bad news. And it'd be refreshing once in a while to hear some good news.
[speaker002:] Right
[speaker001:] And, uh.
[speaker002:] and I, I think there's an attempt to do that. You know, I think people, there's a mild attempt for that, but I think basically, we basically associate news with bad news
[speaker001:] Yes, we do.
[speaker002:] or, or catastrophes or problems or crises, or, uh, you know. I think our concept of news isn't necessarily events that happen. It's more negative, like you said.
[speaker001:] True, true.
[speaker002:] But, I think people try to, on, on T V I think, they try to throw in good stuff, but it doesn't, uh, it doesn't sway the vote.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. I've heard an interes-, interesting comment also that, uh, with budget cuts and, uh, expenses the way they are that it's affected the news media, whereas before they would be able to have a in-depth analysis or, uh, investigative reporting, on certain topics and issues, but that takes time, that takes an awful lot of money and commitment, and, and quite often it's a lot easier to listen to the police scanners or what they call ambulance chasing
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and go after, you know, it's lot easy to go after and follow a fire department or a police officer, and, uh, find out news from that as opposed to going out and finding good things, so. I don't know, I guess the economy is, is effecting also the news media
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and we have to pay that price, but, uh, I don't know, I don't know. It's interesting, and I think that nowadays with communications the way they are also, that we can see global events happening as, as they occur
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] all over the world, like the,
[speaker002:] You know, the war last winter was certainly a good example of that
[speaker001:] Exactly. We saw,
[speaker002:] because we saw every single thing, practically.
[speaker001:] Yes, you know, twenty years ago, thirty years ago, we wouldn't have been able to have that privilege or, or luxury to, to view that. So.
[speaker002:] I mean, you know, I remember, well, just the things that are covered. I remember watching the World Series during the earthquake,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] and just seeing that happen
[speaker001:] Oh, yes.
[speaker002:] I mean, you know, that was just so phenomenal to see this stadium shake
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and the, and the announcers, you know grabbing,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] I mean, it's like, that was just something
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] because that was like live and real
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] like you said, and then, of course, one thing I think, too, is with tele-,