[speaker002:] okay well what's happening in New York well that's what we're doing too on our our current events and it's all over the
[speaker001:] oh what's happening in New York we're all reading about Los Angeles I think
[speaker002:] of course the TV and we're having a little bit of uh uh you know demonstrations here in Dallas but not anything like they're having in LA
[speaker001:] I should hope not
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] I I I was just reading this morning in the paper that it's also spreading to San Francisco as well
[speaker002:] oh is that right well it
[speaker001:] the rioting and all that kind of thing
[speaker002:] uh-huh and last night it was going into some of the nicer areas too you know uh rather than just staying in the in the uh in the sections that it started in
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] but uh I get my current events um all three ways you know talking to people uh some TV although not much TV and uh reading the paper
[speaker001:] do you get
[speaker002:] and
[speaker001:] uh I'm big on the morning radio I guess I woken get woken up by the alarm and catch the day's news real quickly
[speaker002:] well that's something I used to do when I had a long drive to work or a or a maybe a thirty or forty minute drive to work I would turn the the news on and listen to that all the way
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but I don't do that anymore it's just that I guess a habit I've gotten out out of and that's uh that's a real good way to get everything recapped
[speaker001:] you know I was just doing some thinking recently on we only hear we hear the news in a slanted fashion by how it's reported to us
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I was looking at this morning's paper and you see uh you know the cover photo is a truck and and in the background everything's in flames
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I think they kind of uh set you up in a way
[speaker002:] well I know they do I was uh I worked in public relations for um a a Safeway Stores which was a is a big grocery chain in used to be in this area it's not here any longer and it used to be in New York I don't know there
[speaker001:] yeah I've heard of it
[speaker002:] and uh I was their uh press person uh public relations person for about five years and handled all of the press and I would tell them one thing on the phone very carefully
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh and they would report it not so carefully and in different context you had to be so careful uh whenever there was an interview on television uh they would tape a interview ask you lots of questions and then they would just take excerpts out that uh you know standing alone would didn't mean the same thing and so but we just really you really had a we had a tough time uh relating to what you actually what was actually going on as to what was being reported
[speaker001:] um I I think uh the news is starting to think of itself as theater
[speaker002:] well I think you're you may be right there too uh and I can see where did you happen to hear the uh interview of the uh juror
[speaker001:] no no no
[speaker002:] uh last night on TV she said that the public saw only a small portion of that tape now I you know on this Rodney King
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] now I can't side with her you know because they they you know you can see see what was happening and that's totally wrong but you know we were shown just a portion of something we weren't shown a whole picture
[speaker001:] well well something I read in the paper was you know if you just hear the headlines you don't know that there were three other people in the car that was stopped who got out put their hands up and said okay we give up
[speaker002:] um-hum that's exactly right
[speaker001:] you know and they don't tell you that that makes you so angry to think that oh they beat on this poor man
[speaker002:] um-hum this one person
[speaker001:] but he he had a choice to you know this all could have been you know avoided if he had behaved himself I I I believe they overreacted horribly
[speaker002:] exactly right
[speaker001:] but you know if you think of the cop's point of view he has a wife and two kids and he wants to get home tonight and he doesn't know how crazy this guy is
[speaker002:] exactly and he's resisting
[speaker001:] so everybody's fighting for their life and you can see how this can get out of hand
[speaker002:] um-hum exactly
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] but like you said we were not shown that we were not uh unless we you know read in-depth you you get that you don't get that impression and so that makes everybody up in arms
[speaker001:] I've been very annoyed lately by the sensationalism that's going on I was uh visiting some friends over the Easter vacation in California in uh California near San Francisco and the big thing out there was they were finally after twenty five years going to execute someone
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh whereas they've always had a death pentalty penalty they always put it off
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and she had the TV on and they go to say they go on to say well the cyanide came into the room and after about a minute his head slumped and they went into gross gross detail
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I mean why is this on TV is this news do we want to know it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] it was disgusting and this whole thing with Willie Kennedy Smith you know did he rape this girl did he not why is that headline news
[speaker002:] um-hum well it wouldn't be if it was anyone else
[speaker001:] yeah but I mean I think the newspapers are irresponsible
[speaker002:] it wouldn't have been if it