[speaker002:] what what how do you get your main source of current events
[speaker001:] well until until recently I was taking the Wall Street Journal and I thought that was a good way but I have about five different magazines that I get that keeps me up on things you know it's a week or two late but uh that's how I'm staying up
[speaker002:] I either watch the news or I or occasionally occasionally I'll read the paper
[speaker001:] uh do you like how it's presented on the news
[speaker002:] um no I think the media's a little bit too manipulative they allow you uh uh they they try to lead you too much I believe and and sometimes they're not very open I I don't know I think they're a little bit biased sometimes like for example the Kennedy uh the Kennedy rape case the the coverage on that was
[speaker001:] it it
[speaker002:] you know when it first happened it was he was guilty he was guilty he was guilty and you you you know they they they try to have you form opinions or whatever and and then I didn't I didn't like the things uh the things that were going on when we had Desert Storm and stuff like that you know basically I I I think they don't present the the whole sides of of everything
[speaker001:] so it it makes you feel like they're uh wanting you to take their opinion
[speaker002:] right uh it's it it's uh it's instead of reporting the news uh it's more like an editorial I believe on a lot of issues
[speaker001:] yeah I've noticed that too and it's kind of distressing isn't it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and they just I've noticed that they do it just with subtle little words uh usually uh just that sway the whole uh report that you know by just a couple of words
[speaker002:] well when I when I was in school I um I I was a communications major so I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm well aware of the little subtle words and persuasive speaking and and so forth
[speaker001:] so communications huh were you looking into becoming a reporter or
[speaker002:] I was and um um I went I ventured off in a whole entire different field field um I work with the state
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I um work with the Department of State Treasury in retirement disability uh calculate benefits
[speaker001:] I bet that's a interesting job
[speaker002:] yeah so the and so I and you know work is you know working for state government you you hear all about current events about about things going on within the state itself so that that's another source that I I I I where I keep up with current events and
[speaker001:] yeah there's one that I'm reading right now it's Information Week it says AT&T to account for the the benefits that the AICPA now says you have to show as a liability it's going to cost them seven point five billion after tax charge in ninety three to account for that
[speaker002:] it's a lot of money
[speaker001:] and it'll drop their earnings by a hundred million a year forever more
[speaker002:] it's a lot of money
[speaker001:] yeah it is and yeah you have to stay up on stuff and I bet in your your job that you have to do you read the Wall Street Journal
[speaker002:] no well no I I I I I primarily deal with the state employees but I I find interesting tidbits in what the news reports as far as the like the state of uh uh North Carolina's budget and stuff like that and I I really know what the budget is and and and uh uh when they were saying we were so poor and they couldn't pay taxes and to pay people their income tax refunds and stuff like that and you know I'm well aware of the billions of assets the that the state has and it's it's it's it's just funny you you know so that's that's that's that's so I don't have a whole lot of faith in in you know the news of course it's they they get what they hear from but you know it's not always I I think one hundred percent reliable
[speaker001:] do you can can you think of anything that could be done to make our news media more accurate and objective
[speaker002:] I think they need to do a little bit uh go into a little bit more depth uh and before they would just report like somebody wants to make a statement or something like that because I mean another example is the uh AIDS issue or whatever that you know someone said oh I found a cure they immediately the headlines on the news or whatever is so and so has found a cure for AIDS and then two months later it's discovered it's not you know it's uh before they before they come out with something like that they need to to research the the the matter I believe a little bit more
[speaker001:] I guess they do that so they don't get scooped you know so they have the big story
[speaker002:] well that that well yeah I I think I it I think the the