[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] uh the topic is to discuss the uh sources where I receive news
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh for me that's uh mostly newspaper and radio I almost never watch television as a matter of course so I don't get news from television except during the war I watched a lot of CNN because it was so good
[speaker001:] uh-huh well why was CNN the only of course I think Saddam Hussein only allowed CNN to broadcast it is that not true
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] it was unusual not to have the different sources you know of news coverage
[speaker002:] yeah um I don't know I guess uh I don't even know why I watch CNN I guess I just wanted more news it's one of the few times I wanted
[speaker001:] yeah well I know even if you watched ABC NBC or or the other you I mean what's the other one uh CBS they all were were tapped into CNN
[speaker002:] more news than CBS were they
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's the only thing they broadcast and like you I listen to the radio on my job at work and all this week they've been having this uh
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] a discussion about that is why uh why CNN was well I listen to a Christian radio station and they were saying that CNN is definitely a world uh news service and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that was you can't really be sure of the quality of what you got you know
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] uh we had some uh some people from our church went to Israel uh just for a uh tour sort of thing
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I was watching on TV they they broadcast this terrible riot supposedly that was going on in Jerusalem so we got all fearful for our people come to find out they came back and said they weren't even aware of it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and so it really made me question as to what how do we know about you know uh if the news we're getting is any good so
[speaker002:] yeah I guess the news just focuses on major events that probably
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] don't affect ninety nine percent of the people who are right there when the news is being made
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but uh I can I'm from California and I can remember being in uh in these earthquakes and I mean they were they were very minor kinds of things from my point of view and it seemed
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know from anyone else's point of view but they'd get all blown up in the news
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] well I it I find it depressing to watch or especially TV you know it's uh local news concentrates on murders and things like that I'm from Dallas
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh we have a lot of bad stuff it just really gets me depressed even to watch it
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so then you wake up one morning and you're in war with somebody you don't even know about it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] oh what newspaper uh do you read in Dallas
[speaker001:] uh we have the Dallas Times Herald and the Dallas Morning News but I don't I don't read newspapers
[speaker002:] don't you how come
[speaker001:] huh-uh I have find it hard to uh follow from one page to another it's just something I've never developed uh an interest in
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and I live in kind of a bad area where if I have the paper delivered it's stolen before I can get out and get it
[speaker002:] God that's uh that sounds pretty bad to me I mean who would steal a newspaper
[speaker001:] you'd be surprised
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] they just come by and pick them up even if it's just for the TV you know uh selections of the day I don't know it just wouldn't be there whenever I've tried it
[speaker002:] I see yeah
[speaker001:] so you're right who would steal a newspaper but they do
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] what part of California are you from
[speaker002:] uh from Los Angeles but I live in Raleigh North Carolina right now that's where I'm speaking to you from
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] but I grew up in LA I work out here
[speaker001:] huh you work for TI
[speaker002:] no I don't I work for North Carolina State University
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] but uh I know some people at TI and I have a couple of students who have graduated and gone to work for them so I'm in the computer business
[speaker001:] yeah well I boy current events is not a good subject for me
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] I don't keep up with it that often
[speaker002:] let's see I've I've I've never done this before I mean I've never
[speaker001:] this is your first call
[speaker002:] this is my first call because I just got my password
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh really
[speaker002:] so I don't know are we suppose to it seems to me it says you're supposed to talk for three minutes but I think we've been talking for three minutes and nobody has interrupted
[speaker001:] yeah well I'd I got into a conversation last night with a lady and they interrupt at ten minutes
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] so if we've done our three minutes let's just let the conversation end and say bye nice talking to you too bye-bye
[speaker002:] uh-huh well all right nice talking to you all right bye