[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay I guess we're set
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] current events
[speaker001:] I get my current events basically from news uh just because I watch pretty much a lot of television um
[speaker002:] television news is it uh CNN or Headline News or just local news or what it
[speaker001:] uh I watch a little bit of everything I like to tune into CNN to CNN because uh and you can tune in like any time of day and pretty much get the update on everything in about five or ten minutes I think news today um
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] it's kind of losing its importance like on in in on radio if you hear any news at all it's like two seconds you know really quickly on regular stations
[speaker002:] right well on commercial radio I guess I I tend to get more of my news from national public radio in the morning on the way to work evening on the way to school so
[speaker001:] yeah that's good too uh-huh I like KRLD
[speaker002:] so I don't uh I don't see much TV mostly when I'm in school but I do here
[speaker001:] yeah where do you go to school
[speaker002:] uh University of Texas at Dallas
[speaker001:] oh okay I went to UT at Austin
[speaker002:] so right
[speaker001:] but uh I'm a news reporter so I I should get all I can my news from the news from the TV
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] but um
[speaker002:] I do tend to throw on Headline News when I'm doing things around the house and just let it play and listen but uh
[speaker001:] yeah I usually don't intentionally although I should I don't intentionally turn on the television to watch news
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] or I don't intentionally turn on the radio to listen to the news if it comes on I just happen to hear it now I will intentionally buy a newspaper to watch to to look at the news but other than
[speaker002:] yeah all I ever get out of the paper is the Sunday paper so
[speaker001:] yeah that's true
[speaker002:] I read the comics that's about it yeah
[speaker001:] that's about it the Sunday paper it's so full of stuff but you pick your favorite section and the rest you throw away although you paid what almost two dollars now to get it but
[speaker002:] right right I like to listen to uh national public radio on the way to work because it's
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know it's variety you know they throw in a little news and a little bit of other stuff it
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] tends to get like Headline News if you listen to it for an hour when you
[speaker001:] is it is it pretty good coverage on there I mean um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah it usually is and they throw in a lot of you know a lot of interviews and commentaries it's kind of like getting a newspaper there's a lot of
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] sections to it and they they present different sides of things
[speaker001:] hum because I find like on KRLD I like to listen to that but each story is like no more than two or three lines you know so it's
[speaker002:] oh well they spend a little more time you know they cover the headlines and then they go into a lot of issues and things where they they spend five or ten minutes discussing something and interviewing people
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh yeah that'd probably be better especially when you listen to the like popular radio stations like mostly the music stations
[speaker002:] and it's
[speaker001:] news is is pretty much nonexistent they'll have little little teeny weeny news breaks you know
[speaker002:] yeah and only in the morning I guess there's a little bit
[speaker001:] yeah yeah basically
[speaker002:] I haven't listened to a top forty radio station in so long I wouldn't know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] so let's see um
[speaker002:] and I guess I get some kinds of other of you know business related news through trade journals and things but
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] that's about it
[speaker001:] the only reason I get trade journals is like if I'm looking for a job or something
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] which is what I'm doing now
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh yeah trying to get out of wherever they are
[speaker002:] a lot of people are but uh
[speaker001:] but uh I think I think news is I'm wondering where it's going you know how I think it would be nonexistent pretty much nonexistent except maybe through the paper uh I know the newspaper used to be kind of the only source for news and now it's it's kind of your final choice you watch first you go to CNN then you go to radio or something like that I think it
[speaker002:] yeah well nobody wants to sit down and read
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] it's it takes a lot more time to read something and you've got news bombarding you from everywhere now you know you turn on the TV turn on the radio
[speaker001:] yeah so much for my effort yeah yeah but I think that soon the paper may be kind of the only source again
[speaker002:] why is that
[speaker001:] I don't well just because I'm I'm thinking that it it's getting so short on radio just you you still you have two or three I know in Dallas you can probably get two two all news radio stations out of I don't how many popular radio stations and then on television you have just the news at six and ten
[speaker002:] yeah I just
[speaker001:] and I just I just see that dwindling in in
[speaker002:] I find it hard to believe that people'll go back to reading over television I mean just given the way society is and I enjoy reading but most people would rather turn on the tube and
[speaker001:] true yeah true that's true too yeah
[speaker002:] and and flip through the channels you know and get the headline news that thirty minutes of
[speaker001:] than sit down and take the effort to read the paper
[speaker002:] right and they don't have to go get one you know
[speaker001:] one thing I like about the paper um as opposed to television is that uh when I like when I report because I'm in television I have to get the basic the main facts and that's it that's all you have time for whereas in the paper I like to read the articles because they get every side every single side and
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] and every point they make you know and and it's all there
[speaker002:] right well that's why I like uh national public radio because when they get on one of these little they they give you headlines that are brief
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] just they touch on what's going on and then they'll get into something and really explore it
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and it's it's informative it's a lot more informative than you know a quick half hour news show that
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] they tell you what they want you to hear
[speaker001:] yeah because that's what we do I mean it's like each each story is thirty seconds
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] you know so it's like you really have to tell as much as you can which is not much in that amount of time so and it'll probably get shorter and shorter as the years go by I think
[speaker002:] yeah there's so much going on in the world communication you know spans the world now and
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] there's too much going on you can't afford to give more than a couple of seconds here and there
[speaker001:] I think that is one good thing one great thing about news and that we saw right during the war just now is that we got all the information within minutes you know whatever happened we knew about it about the same time that they knew about it
[speaker002:] yeah and the question is how much of it or some how some of it I guess there's a lot of debate about censorship and and what we're really seeing is it is it the true story or is it a little bit biased
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um-hum yeah because even though we do get the story right away they were censored as to what they could tell us so all we had to sit here and and ask is well what aren't they telling us
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] you know so that that was pretty scary but we I talked to one woman and she said that she didn't want to know what was going on because if she had a son over in Saudi Arabia she wouldn't want to know you know that they're bombing or or this and that's going on and at the same time I talked to another woman and she was so happy to know because she lived through Vietnam and she didn't know what was happening at that time and she was so happy to get the information
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] you know so it's just a lot of different opinions on that
[speaker002:] I I you know I like to to know what's going on sometimes I think there's just a little bit too much
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know you get in the habit of like I say turn on Headline News and it'll play over and over and you just tune it out because it's the same thing but
[speaker001:] yeah and then too a lot of times I think uh especially on television they blow things completely out of proportion it's like
[speaker002:] yeah they tend to dramatize things that are
[speaker001:] you know like this Kennedy thing it's just I mean everywhere you turn Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy you know what kind of shoes did he wear on the night and you know it's just like okay this is ridiculous
[speaker002:] yeah like who cares really
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] but what are you doing something on a computer oh I heard the little clicking
[speaker002:] yeah trying to do some C programming
[speaker001:] oh okay well it was nice talking to you okay take care bye-bye
[speaker002:] okay take care um-hum bye