[speaker001:] where do you get most of your current events
[speaker002:] oh well when the war was on I was watching the T V a lot
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but um  I haven't been doing it so much now that it's calmed down
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I was I was uh we don't have cable so we were watching C N N a lot and then trying to switch thank goodness for remote control
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] we were switching from one station to another and in between keeping the radio on
[speaker002:] yeah C N N coverage was really good
[speaker001:] it was extraordinary yeah we um um and then you know couldn't wait for the newspaper reminded me of when I was younger the uh the time of Watergate and just couldn't get enough of it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] it kind of get wrapped up in it
[speaker001:] yeah um I it was the first couple of nights sitting up and watching T V late into the evening and you just wanted to get the latest news what was happening
[speaker002:] yeah kind of like watching the Olympics
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] kind of like watching the Olympics
[speaker001:] yeah yeah you just couldn't you couldn't put it down you couldn't put it down
[speaker002:] yeah after a while though it started getting a little repetitive it ran out of news
[speaker001:] it did yeah it was like you know that what was it two steps forward one step back
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh but occasionally you know you'd stay in tune just long enough to get the latest different tidbit or a different angle and uh you really became addicted to it for a while
[speaker002:] right right do you uh normally read the newspaper every day
[speaker001:] I try to um the newspaper comes uh in the morning and I leave for work at seven huh yeah yeah and I usually don't get a chance to sit down until after work
[speaker002:] the what the Post  pretty good newspaper uh-huh
[speaker001:] and at that point I try at least try to get through most most the front section and maybe you know one or two other sections
[speaker002:] yeah I don't I don't regularly watch news or uh newspaper I would say I get probably most of it from my friends you know they finally told me hey there's a war going on oh okay
[speaker001:] uh-huh where do what what newspaper do you get uh there
[speaker002:] uh just the Raleigh local paper
[speaker001:] how does it how does compare have you can you compare like how does it compare to the Post
[speaker002:] oh it's it's it's not even a comparison
[speaker001:] yeah that's funny because every once in a while if my husband and I have traveled or something um and we pick up a local paper we're really shocked even in a major city at how local it is it's really provincial
[speaker002:] yeah yeah the news is the same way the news local news here is kind of lousy
[speaker001:] is it really I mean
[speaker002:] it's not much different than when I lived in Roanoke Virginia which is really small town
[speaker001:] that's that's maybe because we get so you know we're so jaded with the Post uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] which is really international and and it keeps reminding me you know that this we're we're really in an in an isolated different situation here and I keep saying no wonder the rest of the people in the world vote for in the country vote the way they do I mean
[speaker002:] yeah  that explains it
[speaker001:] but uh I probably do watch more T V because I get home and in between say cooking dinner or something if I can catch a five or six o'clock news
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] I watch that usually uh before we settle down uh depending what time we get to bed we'll usually watch the ten or the eleven o'clock news we have a ten o'clock news here at night and that's ideal
[speaker002:] uh-huh um yeah
[speaker001:] because because by ten thirty I start to fade
[speaker002:] so uh I'm in graduate school so I have a really weird schedule and I don't know I really don't have time for T V and newspaper just I wouldn't I wouldn't have time to read it so I'm
[speaker001:] what are you studying like yeah I remember when I was in school yeah
[speaker002:] finding the latest thing out from my friends is usually the most uh time effective
[speaker001:] yeah yeah no I can remember way back back in those days when I was in school the I think the only time we only really watched the news and this tells you how old I was was during the Cuban missile crisis
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh I we could just we were all centered around that television yep
[speaker002:] what's neat is seeing history happen you know
[speaker001:] that's exactly right and I'd
[speaker002:] I guess that's it
[speaker001:] yeah although I do worry that how easy this one was might be a bad lesson uh to the to the younger people um you know than there is the other generation
[speaker002:] yeah um in North Carolina there was a lot lot of service men from here you know and people really saw that
[speaker001:] oh that's true yeah yeah
[speaker002:] saw it first hand
[speaker001:] that was probably the best part of the news was the uh some of the person human interest stories
[speaker002:] yeah some of it got a little I I don't know I thought it was a little too personal that they were digging each other life
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] little too much maybe
[speaker001:] does it does it bother you that uh at this point in your life that you're not getting more direct news or
[speaker002:] uh no not really
[speaker001:] what are you studying
[speaker002:] I'm in computer science
[speaker001:] okay yeah um I guess
[speaker002:] I see it as information age
[speaker001:] yeah how old are you
[speaker002:] I'm twenty five
[speaker001:] okay then I'm see I'm about twenty years older
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and I really do I do rely I do miss it I do rely on the news and uh I I guess I regret I don't get enough local really local we get some local papers but I guess I'm more interested in the national or international news
[speaker002:] uh-huh it's almost getting to the point where there is there's too much that
[speaker001:] overload news overload
[speaker002:] yeah you shouldn't even worry about most of the stuff I mean I don't know it's a little near sighted but uh
[speaker001:] yeah but well it's hard I'll I'll tell you though it is hard when you go to vote I mean there are so many issues and there're so many people running that you know unless you have some way of evaluating it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and I guess the news does help well it was really nice talking talking to you okay
[speaker002:] okay did it work out your first time all right
[speaker001:] I hope so
[speaker002:] okay alright bye-bye
[speaker001:] take care bye-bye