[speaker001:] well it's uh I'll start off here uh I don't know I get probably most of my information either from the newspaper or from CNN um I like CNN because it uh you know repeats it well Headline News repeats every half hour and so it it makes it really convenient because I keep a rather hectic schedule
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] and uh but the newspaper provides provides a little bit of depth that you can't really get from
[speaker002:] yeah I I think I'd agree of of of a similar method of getting the news with me too it's uh uh CNN has been a welcome addition to the T V scene here in the last uh number of years uh prior prior to cable you know you didn't get much news off of normal uh television broadcasts
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] uh just usually pretty local in in nature and and I like uh CNN because you get some world world events too
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh which is not too common on on the other format newspapers and so forth
[speaker001:] right yeah I know the my only major objection is that uh I don't think American media spends enough uh attention on on our closest neighbors like Mexico and Canada uh
[speaker002:] that that's true you know you hardly ever see uh headline articles about the uh either the economics or or other world news events going on in either of those countries
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] uh whereas if you pick up a a European paper you know uh it all the surrounding countries Soviet Union and everything has uh major news uh articles in them
[speaker001:] right yeah I mean you know Canada's going through a lot of problems now with with Quebec and and everything and uh it's amazing that you know I I listen to DC area and the Washington Post you know I mean the most they'll give it is maybe the back of the A section
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um you know
[speaker002:] well I'm I'm currently living in Dallas and it it won't it won't even give it the back section you just never see you just never see anything about it uh which is a shame because you go to other countries uh and and they carry quite a bit about the US on the other hand and if you go up to uh Canada those people are usually pretty uh familiar with the politics going on and and the news events in the US and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we're pretty uh limited in our understanding of of leaders up in Canada or Mexico
[speaker001:] yeah definitely
[speaker002:] you just you just don't know what's going on
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I'd I every once in a while I have to travel overseas and then lately I've taken the taken a little shortwave radio uh around and picking up the BBC and it's sort of like uh a CNN too you you can tune into some stations and you get some like thirty minute summaries of of news events uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I occasionally get into some of the middle eastern uh area and that's the only way you can tell what's going on at all there's not much in the way of television in some of those places
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] um but that's a good point about about the neighboring countries I hadn't really thought about it but I guess you don't think about it because you don't hear it
[speaker001:] right exactly yeah I uh spent this past summer up in Canada uh well part of it touring and uh you know I I was amazed because I'd pick up a local paper and I'd read about all of these you know really interesting things going on there's some serious talk about whether there's actually going to be a a Canada you know in the next five years
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know because of the problems with Quebec and never I had never heard any of that before
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you know there was a a what is it called is it Meech Lake Accord or or yeah that's just something uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I'd say ninety percent of the people here would never have heard of and I think that I heard of it about the first time when I was up in Calgary a couple of years ago and you know picked up a a paper and started reading a little bit more detail about it and and came came and it was a big thing going on there and I came back here and nothing in the papers
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] and just didn't see a thing about it so it's uh we've got a long ways to go I guess it's improved and like I say with CNN and and uh the cable news even even there's a uh it's sort it's semireligious in some respects but what is it it's uh I mean its news is not not that way uh oh I'm trying to think of the channel the Christian the Christian Science Monitor
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] uh it it surprised me I've caught it a few times and they they do some pretty good news uh seemingly unbiased news broadcasts uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh the the title of the network is sort of surprising you'd think it would carry mostly religious but it it doesn't seem to so I'll flip through and listen to it once in awhile too uh and catch something maybe a little different than than CNN might be covering uh some more interest interest type topics in in other countries but it's kind of world world uh network too
[speaker001:] yeah um I've I guess I've never seen the TV show I used to get the uh