[speaker001:] any so how do you get most of your news
[speaker002:] well I kind of uh I watch the um national news everyday for one I also read one or two papers a day and I'm a I'm pretty much a news junkie and I tune in to CNN a lot
[speaker001:] oh wow so when you say the morning news or evening news or national news is when
[speaker002:] uh every evening at six thirty I believe I watch the national news
[speaker001:] oh okay well I would probably be a junkie or something watch CNN a lot but I don't uh I don't uh subscribe to cable because because of the poor service and also uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] because well I uh I give to the United Way and so I figured that amount of money I just donate to that
[speaker002:] uh-huh as opposed to paying for cable
[speaker001:] yeah I take away a uh a addiction or something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well I
[speaker002:] uh overall I I the quality of the news you get off off of most uh sources I would say is pretty low it's usually you get pretty incomplete coverage and that's one of the reasons where I why I try and get as many sources as possible because if you hear the same story from three different sources then you get a much clearer picture of of what is going on you would hope it's still you know hard to say that what you've heard is what really is
[speaker001:] oh what what uh newspapers do you read
[speaker002:] well I read uh the local newspaper and I also try and read one of the uh major dailies like the Chicago Tribune or the New York Times or something like that
[speaker001:] uh for a while there I I I uh subscribed to New York Times actually actually a couple of newspapers because uh you know my fiance well she was unemployed for a while so she you know really needed to look at the the want help wanted ads and so often they they try the newspapers are trying to compete with a lot of other sources of newspaper of news
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and I don't know New York Times is okay but um I don't know when you read a lot of this stuff the the quality of the writing is definitely gone down in the last ten years or so but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh I mean they they say it's like the sixth grade reading level but I swear it's at least second or third grade sometimes
[speaker002:] right pretty low
[speaker001:] but I don't know um I think if if you listen to like NPR or something like
[speaker002:] right I I really like NPR a lot
[speaker001:] that's pretty good um and I like listening to that on on uh when I get a chance when I'm in the car a long enough time to to listen to it because I
[speaker002:] right yeah I miss NPR a lot also I really like them because they give uh instead of being as your newspaper or your TV news where you get a five minute blurb or a ten paragraph blurb they go really in depth on topics which I think is good and they also
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] their editorial stand point seems to be a lot better than say your major network news and that kind of thing
[speaker001:] well McNeil Lehrer McNeil and Lehrer I guess he's leaving one of them is leaving
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh they're they're pretty good too um I guess a year ago you're probably watching CNN a lot right had that invasion or whatever it is
[speaker002:] right yeah sure was
[speaker001:] uh but I I don't know I guess a lot of it's still a lot of hype look at the the Smith trial I mean that was a joke uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah that was but then you also have things where you uh where they broadcast the Clarence Thomas hearings basically the whole length of them which I thought was really really good
[speaker001:] oh yeah the NPR doing that yeah I know the I had uh some visitor and he was just in just I don't know fixated on that you know just listened to it constantly
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um and I guess that's good when it's live if you if you'll really want that but that's not really providing you news it's it's more like a media event rather than reporting
[speaker002:] right well but the but the news news news that you would get from any other source is being generated from that event which is something that's good also about C-SPAN which I I tune into every once in a while
[speaker001:] oh really that's kind of boring to me I think
[speaker002:] yeah it it is really kind of boring but you know that's if if you don't watch it there then you're going to hear somebody else's canned uh report somebody else's view about it and that's what you're supposed you're supposed to if you watch the news you're going your opinion is going to be formed about on what somebody else thought about it as opposed to actually watching it yourself and forming your own opinion opinion which I haven't would be much more in favor of forming my own opinion as opposed to following someone else's
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I guess that's true but uh one of the ways that I get information is uh everyday when I log in on the computer I subscribe to this this thing it's free inside the company and it's called Intellect and and they basically uh type out abstracts which are really really literally I've I've actually read the actual articles they're pretty good