[speaker001:] so how do you keep up with the news
[speaker002:] most of it is TV
[speaker001:] um do you read the newspaper
[speaker002:] yes I do we get a daily and then I get uh the Wall Street Journal also
[speaker001:] um what daily
[speaker002:] it's the uh Charlotte Observer
[speaker001:] Charlotte Observer um is that there in your city
[speaker002:] yes right
[speaker001:] uh-huh so uh
[speaker002:] the Wall Street Journal gives financial news and other information I'm interested in
[speaker001:] so uh do you think you get anything from your local newspaper
[speaker002:] yes but it's usually after the fact uh as far as the major topics because most of the other has been on TV don't you agree
[speaker001:] um yeah I don't I'm not exactly sure how good the national news is though how accurate exactly
[speaker002:] yeah oh I think uh during the Middle East Crisis there was a problem in terms of too quick to try to get a scoop and not checking facts out and I think that's probably a a good relevant uh uh fear of all of it yeah I didn't see a movie a long time ago but it was about the news team that um
[speaker001:] fear
[speaker002:] tried to influence the world and I I have a feeling that they're much more into themselves sometimes than they are into what the world um is ready to hear they create news
[speaker001:] yeah it seems like they're not really trying to report the news they are trying to report how the news affects them
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I think so too
[speaker001:] or where they're at with the news or something along those lines uh
[speaker002:] radio is sort of a catch up in fact I was um listening to the radio the other day and that they were reporting on the condition of an of an accident victim and I had already seen on the news about an hour before that that accident victim had died but the radio news report was that he was still in intensive care so it's one of those um it the most immediate is TV The others are catch up and fill in
[speaker001:] yeah a little bit of color or something for the lack of total information that was given on the TV lack they give immediate for the lack of total
[speaker002:] uh-huh how do you feel the newspapers there in Colorado Springs treats local interest news
[speaker001:] well rather biasedly I think I believe huh very pro city
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh for the city fathers but uh it seems almost as though they don't care about how the national news affects the local area
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh I think about other topics too I I'd like to go to a city and sort of look at the front page and find out what is going on in that city but it's always the national information that you have to flip through to find out anything special about the city and I think that's uh
[speaker001:] yeah and then they give give you just the local O bits and that's it
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and and well hell you don't know know those people that died or or what from
[speaker002:] no the older you get the more you know though
[speaker001:] well what I mean is do you if your in a strange city you certainly don't know them
[speaker002:] oh right right yeah that's true what type of work are you in
[speaker001:] I work for Texas Instruments
[speaker002:] okay uh that uh is a news worthy company in itself so you're you would be interested in any news related to it yeah
[speaker001:] uh yes and yourself
[speaker002:] oh I'm I'm consulting right now I'm in between jobs so it makes uh it makes a difference I'm I'm interested in many more industries than I used to be just in terms of looking around so it
[speaker001:] yeah I understand
[speaker002:] I've been in the oil and gas business and then higher education and um done a few other things including international uh accounting so
[speaker001:] huh that's interesting I've always considered myself uh how is this best put the the Charles Bollfield trash
[speaker002:] oh okay uh uh
[speaker001:] grew up in West Texas thank you
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I understand that I was in Oklahoma so I I know the area very well
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh um so do you think our local do you think our national news tells us anything important
[speaker002:] oh yes they'll they'll tell you a lot that's important but the trouble is the value do you watch Sixty Minutes and some of those other
[speaker001:] um yeah I I I watch Sixty Minutes
[speaker002:] I I wonder sometimes where they get those topics you know some of the topics are very very good and others are like uh who who who dreamed this subject up you know
[speaker001:] almost religiously well and
[speaker002:] and far as affecting a national audience I wonder sometimes
[speaker001:] and more importantly than that I wonder how the other side of the story is
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] and of course they're not going to tell the other side of the story and they're not going to tell it accurately
[speaker002:] no but I do enjoy we are here temporarily I enjoyed having CNN so that I could tune in the news any time I wanted to and not wait for network broadcasting
[speaker001:] uh we don't we don't have cable
[speaker002:] okay it's it's a good addition because I think they're they have a lot of news obviously all the time and there's not the pressure then
[speaker001:] yeah we've watched little bits here and there during the Gulf Crisis and we
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah the
[speaker001:] I didn't exactly I wasn't exactly sure how accurate it was either
[speaker002:] oh I think it it too is under pressure
[speaker001:] and it seemed as though during the Gulf Crisis it might have been under pressure from the incorrect side
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh yes it was there are games played
[speaker001:] I I'm not sure how to phrase that uh delicately
[speaker002:] psychological warfare is a big factor all the way around um it's been it's been a big factor for many many years but this is the first uh first time we have seen it so quickly and so close up
[speaker001:] yeah it is
[speaker002:] it
[speaker001:] I I didn't feel comfy you know I you know you always hear about the warm fuzzy feeling
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I kept watching that be it CNN in a bar or or or or local news at home or federal news at home or or see uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] we don't subscribe to our Colorado Springs paper we subscribe to the Denver paper
[speaker002:] Denver paper okay
[speaker001:] and uh but on occasion more than occasionally we'll buy the local paper
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that warm fuzzy that we're talking about I never could get that warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach about are these people really telling me the truth or more importantly all the truth
[speaker002:] yeah I think all the truth is is the big issue they obviously had to be telling a lot of truth because they were there reporting firsthand but in terms of
[speaker001:] well I'd suspect that to be true but you couldn't prove it to me
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and and most importantly I couldn't believe any of those people they didn't seem believable
[speaker002:] did you just switch back and forth between programs
[speaker001:] oh all four um well we have the independent here and we've got the three majors and PBS and we watched all four of those and on more than occasionally I went to a bar that had CNN running around the clock
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and still I got this feeling as though from these six or eight news sources I had that something was missing
[speaker002:] uh I think they they withhold when it's advantageous both sides both sides and I think when Norman announced afterwards on the Barbara Walters Show
[speaker001:] and oh Storming Norman
[speaker002:] yes that um he knew you know what to expect out of Saddam Saddam Hussein that he was playing games you know and and they both were I think that's all part of warfare is to play games
[speaker001:] oh of course and you've got to expect that
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I had the feeling that no matter who I listened to it wasn't that they weren't telling me the truth I felt that someone was lying to me and there's nothing there still at this state that I can put my finger on and say oh here's where they lied to me
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] just a feeling
[speaker002:] yeah well let's hope we don't have to go through that again
[speaker001:] yes wouldn't it be wonderful if there were no more wars
[speaker002:] oh that would be nice I hope we never never get to but I'm afraid um human nature is such that somewhere there'll be a fanatic that will start something
[speaker001:] and more importantly wouldn't it be nice in this land of the free and home of the brave if there were never again be any misinformation
[speaker002:] oh yes oh yes