[speaker001:] okay how do you keep up with current events
[speaker002:] um well actually usually um in the mornings I am getting ready to either go to work um usually catch the news in the morning
[speaker001:] yeah what what channel do you watch or what station
[speaker002:] uh NBC
[speaker001:] that's the one I watch I usually keep up with TV I don't I am a student so I really don't have much time to like read the newspapers and stuff
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I get a lot of stuff through the grapevine which is really isn't
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] too great sometimes
[speaker002:] yeah I usually tend to just you know rely on you know TV um again you know just through the grapevine just just to know like yeah what what today's stories are and I usually like go out an buy a newspaper if you know I'm interested in any particular one
[speaker001:] yeah the radio doesn't really have much news sometimes the stations I listen to are just mainly music
[speaker002:] yeah I think you you pretty much have to listen to all news station to get any news at all
[speaker001:] yeah do you think that TV is um pretty accurate I mean sometimes do you think it gets pretty commercialized or
[speaker002:] well what I really don't like about TV especially local news as compared to like national news is just um it seems it seems like everything is very spoon feed and you know it's it's more like the news shows is now is is now you know an entertainment show like a sitcom
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] or like the news because they would always have like the wonderful investigative reports you know is is you're kids bus driver smoking crack on the way to school you know
[speaker001:] yeah it's they mainly go with like popular topics just not like basic news
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah also also I have the observation with um with the press is that like any any stories that I had any first hand knowledge of that I see in the press you know which only happened like ten times in my life
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] you know first thing you know for anything of you know or anything that actually had had more than just a blurb about it that the press has managed to just mess up some aspect of the story it's something wrong
[speaker001:] yeah going they're looks like they're going more for ratings than for
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know actual news I think you know the probably the best source of just plain journalism would be newspapers
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they typically have a better I am from a small town too here in Texas
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so that then like local news is really who grew the biggest tomato and
[speaker002:] yeah the farm report
[speaker001:] yeah farm report and oil reports that's pretty pretty sad or who killed who
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah also I have um founded like in newspapers probably aren't as bad as television but I just you know read the story and just found it so incredibly watered down and
[speaker001:] yeah well in um in Dallas um I don't know if you heard about the killing where the guy drove into Luby's and the story was uh
[speaker002:] was that like he started shooting people people in this cafeteria or something
[speaker001:] yeah and the news covered it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] right you know hours after it happened and they were taping people who were crying who
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] had everything and then like three days later this local news station was using as a as their promo
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] to promote themselves I just thought that was really
[speaker002:] oh yeah I have seen that happen lots of times you know
[speaker001:] that's kind of cold
[speaker002:] you know Channel X gives you the best coverage you know we were on the scene with our team players you know
[speaker001:] yeah and it was just they were showing like these dead people and they were showing people crying I mean just taking advantage of you know
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] it real personal moment
[speaker002:] they are trying to get the you know most emotional response for
[speaker001:] yeah it didn't seem like there was much coverage of the story but just the play on people's emotions it's just gotten so I mean somewhere there's it's lost a lot of the quality that they use to have like in Walter Cronkite days you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and everything
[speaker002:] yeah I have you know I've pretty much stopped watching local news totally you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um you know even the national news I just find it to be you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] very watered down very
[speaker001:] yeah what did you think of the coverage of the war
[speaker002:] um I found I found it very one sided
[speaker001:] did you
[speaker002:] um you know I mean it just it just seemed to lack any sort of debate
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um you know you know not saying that we should that we that we definitely should have been there or shouldn't have been there but it just seemed like you know
[speaker001:] they kept just showing you know how great we were doing and it never really showed what actually
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the damage that really happened that's
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] a lot of times like the news coverage showed all the you know the guys who didn't get hurt coming home and all the big parties and they kind of you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] if they were going to show that why didn't they show the guys who you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] got really hurt and everything and
[speaker002:] yeah and I really think that you know in the in the involvement that the press states you know that the the military basically sets the press