[speaker001:] um like I say I'm a I'm a uh a sort of an addict for uh current events and news so I read the paper almost everyday and um I also generally watch one of the national news casts
[speaker002:] yeah I keep up with most of my stuff either by the news I don't get to read the paper everyday because I just don't have enough time but I read it on Sundays and then I always listen to the like six o'clock or ten o'clock news and then listen to the radio
[speaker001:] uh my main problem is that um I I like to follow the national news
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I'm I'm really not very happy with local news cast and I'm uh I don't like the local paper paper very much either
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] especially since we don't have a choice anymore since Dallas lost its one paper that I
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] um um I usually read the front page and then the editorial page and uh I'm finding that I spend less and less time on the editorial page because the selection is so bad
[speaker002:] yeah what about USA Today do you read that one
[speaker001:] no uh I used to
[speaker002:] nope
[speaker001:] uh uh the New York Times is my favorite newspaper that's what I grew up with but uh I don't spend the money on it because I know I only get to spend five or ten minutes on it and have to
[speaker002:] it's not worth it
[speaker001:] uh let it pile up
[speaker002:] I like um USA Today
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] because I mean it's not real thick but it gets most of the stuff in there that's current and going on
[speaker001:] does it have editorial writers
[speaker002:] um yeah
[speaker001:] who are some of them
[speaker002:] now that got got me I mean I don't read it everyday like whenever we're on vacation or whenever I go on vacation or whatever I I get to keep up with it but that's like what once or twice a year
[speaker001:] can you I wonder if they use their uh the same ones all the time or if they just grab uh the best of the Washington Post and the New York Times and they probably have a few syndicated columnists that they rotate
[speaker002:] I think well I mean I don't know you know I really have never paid that much attention to that
[speaker001:] that's that's what the Dallas Morning News does and they they they seem to select select them kind of irregularly and I um I don't think they do a very good job myself
[speaker002:] yeah do you read the paper everyday
[speaker001:] pretty much I guess I like I said I read the headlines and then I read the editorial page and then I check the uh local news that's the only thing I really rely on the paper for is the local news
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but um I I'm finding that  McNeal Lehrer uh news hour is the TV program that I I like to watch the most they because they they don't give you these thirty seconds short shots of twenty different stories they usually spend about fifteen minutes or ten minutes on the story
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] now um when does that come on
[speaker001:] ten o'clock well it's actually it's on a couple of times it's on channel two at seven I think and it's on channel thirteen at uh ten o'clock usually
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so I try to watch that from ten to eleven unless unless something else is going on
[speaker002:] the radio station that I listen to in the morning I mean they're they're real good about going over like what's going and I mean they talk about it like some of this like the major events that are going on
[speaker001:] you ever listen to the public radio station
[speaker002:] um no no well I mean I may've just flipped through it why
[speaker001:] KERA they're quite yeah they're quite good uh yeah I like them very much
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] that's that's what I tune to regularly um KRLD if I need to know what the traffic's like
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] no the Eagle usually I mean they'll can tell you pretty much they go over the stuff they have a newscaster on there and they go I mean it's short and sweet but I mean they keep you up to date on stuff
[speaker001:] you spend a lot of time driving
[speaker002:] yeah well yeah well I mean I always listen to the radio or the TV whenever I'm getting ready in the morning
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I'm always listening to the news um when I drive but I don't drive I mean I my commute is only about five minutes so I I don't have to uh spend a lot of time in the car if I did I guess I would rely more on the radio more than I do on the TV
[speaker002:] see you have a shorter commute so that's why you get to stay home and read the paper in the morning me I just have to rely on the TV or the um the newspaper I mean the or the
[speaker001:] right right yeah
[speaker002:] radio station
[speaker001:] yeah I I find that most of the TV coverage is too short and superficial so that's one one reason you have to have a newspaper so you can read something in depth
[speaker002:] yeah well I used to work I worked for a newspaper for six and a half years
[speaker001:] they did where
[speaker002:] uh in well in Nacogdoches Texas which is real small town
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh I know where it is yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] and oh really well um it was family owned and everything so we didn't like the the way a lot of the stuff was run there
[speaker001:] was it a weekly
[speaker002:] daily um-hum
[speaker001:] daily oh I wouldn't think a size town that size would have a daily newspaper
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] but they got bought out by Cox
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so now a lot of things have changed or whatever
[speaker001:] is it still a daily
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] yeah is that where you grew up
[speaker002:] yes actually
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh well that's  surprising surprising there was a a daily newspaper at a town that small
[speaker002:] yeah like I said it was family owned and they pretty much I mean they were in the I mean well they put in there what they published what they wanted to publish and stuff they didn't want to publish
[speaker001:] yeah