[speaker001:] okay um let me see I've been sitting here awhile I almost forgot the topic but uh it seems like I get most of my news from television I'm we only get the paper on the weekends and so I'm not much of a of a paper reader or but I I and I'm don't rarely listen to the um radio so it I get most of my news like from documentaries like Forty Eight Hours Twenty Twenty you know it the news at night
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] news news in the afternoon and that kind of thing
[speaker002:] uh-huh well I I get a weekend paper as well and uh in addition to that I get a local weekly I I live in suburb of Milwaukee and they get they
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] have community newspapers around here so the local their extremely local stuff uh is in the local paper that comes out once a week and then I get the Sunday
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh Milwaukee Journal because I don't have time to read a paper uh mostly that's my difficulty I uh I get my news pretty much from the same source as you do although I do listen to NPR
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] which has very good and that's National Public Radio which has very good uh coverage of the national and international news I feel and does a pretty good job of analysis as well usually
[speaker001:] huh um are you in the car quite a bit or
[speaker002:] no I'm not actually uh but I can run my radio in my office I I I teach at the university and when I'm not
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] teaching if I choose to have the radio on I can listen to that station so
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh I see um
[speaker002:] how how are you are you satisfied with the Twenty Twenty and Forty Eight Hours and the things that you do watch
[speaker001:] yeah I I I pretty much am and I watch the news at least twice a day
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so uh if I've missed something and and and I've just recently decided to home with my children and so it seems as if I catch the news rise right as it happens happens you know there was
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh the explosions and that kind of thing my husband will say how'd you know about that and I said yes it happened at such and such time and that's so that that's different for me so I usually find out when exactly when it happens and that kind of thing
[speaker002:] is that the aspect of the news that you're most interested in is is the timely you noting noting of the events as they happen is that what you feel good about in the news coverage
[speaker001:] uh no it just seems like since I've recently stayed home that that is what's happened you know it's just that uh I now that I've stayed home I'm I'm usually aware of when when these things have occurred and it happened and
[speaker002:] uh-huh well I I myself uh the the reason why I listen to NPR and the reason why I watch MacNeil Lehrer rather than the than the network shows news shows at night although I do often watch a local ten o'clock in the evening news which shows shows you know carries over a lot of the national news stories uh is that
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] quite often it seems to me that the national doesn't do a very good job of analysis the local doesn't either but I feel that MacNeil Lehrer get a little more deeply into some some of the issues that are really current
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and perhaps newspapers do that but as I said I don't have time to sit down and read a newspaper and frankly when I have read a newspaper I haven't noticed that kind of analysis either
[speaker001:] um-hum hum
[speaker002:] so um there's there is some danger to that of course too because if the analysis is inaccurate or biased or whatever then you know how good is it but uh I like a little more indepth coverage and I think that's what you're maybe appealing to you too on something like Twenty Twenty or Forty Eight Hours
[speaker001:] right right it kind of gives you the whole story or more of the story that kind of thing
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so um
[speaker002:] I'm more interested in trying to understand what's going on in the world rather than simply being aware that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know there that an event has occurred
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I I like to stand back and get a slightly bigger picture maybe because I'm easily confused by detail I don't know
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I know what you're saying
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] yeah but I try and catch most of those programs on Wednesdays and Fridays and if I miss them I try and you know I try and and uh tape them if I'm out or that kind of thing I try and tape them and so I can sit back and watch it and it's pretty interesting um
[speaker002:] when you have young children right
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so those evening shows are probably also at a time when you're at liberty to take some time off and be in front of the TV set for awhile without interruption
[speaker001:] yeah well yeah plus I find I have to video tape quite a bit of things if I don't want any interruptions yeah that kind of thing
[speaker002:] oh you do uh-huh uh-huh when is your good watching time
[speaker001:] um it seems like ten o'clock at night
[speaker002:] uh-huh yes yeah that's what what
[speaker001:] unfortunately but that's that's what it seems like ten o'clock at night
[speaker002:] I have older children and getting dinner on the table I come from the east coast and I was
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it amazed me when I got out here to the midwest and found out that even though they're an hour earlier in time they still watch the news when New York