[speaker001:] uh I get most of my news uh from newspapers really I read the daily newspaper uh the Houston Chronicle and sometimes I'll read uh like the uh uh Wall Street Journal or The New York Times I don't subscribe to either but sometimes I get a hold of copies of it um how about you do you you mostly get news from TV or newspaper
[speaker002:] yeah I actually get most of my news coverage off uh computer networks however I do also watch television news uh usually in the morning once a day and I read the front page of the Wall Street Journal most everyday
[speaker001:] oh uh that's interesting you said computer networks um what uh what sort I'm fairly knowledgeable about oh okay that's interesting
[speaker002:] uh well well Dow Jones for example have a has a uh a news wire and it's uh it's picked up and actually available um at my office so it's no fee subscription I'm uh very easy to to read at my leisure and um it's sorted by category for example so I can read certain businesses or topics
[speaker001:] oh is is it is it the AP news wire or is it uh something that's that's a little bit different from that
[speaker002:] well it's similar to that but it's Dow Jones which is um The Wall Street Journal's news wire
[speaker001:] uh okay so that that that's interesting okay yeah I've had I had access in the past to uh uh the AP news wire and I found that was that was pretty a pretty good way to get news um I've never uh used the Dow Jones news wire but uh yeah it uh do you do you get any uh do you read any news magazines or anything like that for sort of like a broader like more long term analytical sort of approach
[speaker002:] um well actually not uh I do uh follow um uh uh I don't know how to how to describe it um so it's a religious newspaper which which talks about issues that are relevant to me in a more broad sense it's a weekly but uh but not um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but not like Business Week or uh or News Week or or or one of those kinds of things I I'd like to say that however um that I'm overwhelmingly disappointed with the media in general except for the raw news wires
[speaker001:] uh interesting in what way in like in sort of like uh a quality a quality or sort of the orientation in terms of like view point or the way the news is presented or whatever
[speaker002:] um I I think that it I think it has to do with uh I personally think I I have a problem with their viewpoint and I personally think that uh that there's a strong bias
[speaker001:] go you well you won't offend me so go ahead and say
[speaker002:] there's a strong there's a strong bias in the media
[speaker001:] yeah like liberal a liberal type of bias
[speaker002:] yeah absolutely after after all who who who writes are people are journalist who are trained to write and they're that's a liberal
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] uh a liberal field at least from academia and uh the other thing that I always notice is that whenever they write about something that I'm
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] an expert in I find their descriptions to be wrong
[speaker001:] yeah yeah they generally make mistake on anything technical at least but
[speaker002:] and it that's right well even if it's not technical if it's um social thing or or whatever it doesn't matter if I'm expert in it they usually make mistakes which leads me to believe that the things I'm not expert in that they're telling me lies
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah do you by mistakes do you do you mean just like honest mistakes or do you think they're deliberate sorts of things
[speaker002:] I I think both uh by deliberate um I mean mistakes mistakes of omission or uh or uh bias toward the particular viewpoint particular liberal view point that they have
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] so uh uh well give an example uh you you we'll go out of the printing media I know of cases where um for example in television media where they'll show clippings from one event and describe another event but with the attempt to give you the impression that what they're talking about is the same thing that they're showing you
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] which is sort of like a deliberate bias um which is which is rather disturbing I know ABC does that
[speaker001:] hm that's disturbing uh I haven't really noticed them doing that but whatever again I don't watch TV news that much now if I had access to CNN I would watch TV news more um I don't you know but I don't usually yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I don't have access either although I did at one time and uh it was I did during the Gulf War and it was addictive
[speaker001:] yeah did you did you think that CNN well the Gulf War coverage would be kind of uh uh abnormality I just wonder I guess I'd be curious to know what you thought as to as to how like say CNN TV news compared to the three networks um you know whether you thought it was more or less biased or whatever but I I guess you wouldn't you probably if you just watched it during Gulf War that probably wouldn't wouldn't tell you much
[speaker002:] yeah well during that small sample I would say that everyone was just about just about the same except the three networks who also had radio then television programming so if at a particular time you wanted to get
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] the latest and greatest news you could do that by um turning on CNN and you would
[speaker001:] yeah