[speaker002:] so are are you a news person
[speaker001:] uh I really am I enjoy I enjoy listening to the news and getting as much as I can although you know I'm a full-time student and I work full-time too so or not full-time but I work quite a bit and so so I mostly depend on the radio
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] you know on the way to work I like I like to listen to National Public Radio uh All Things Considered
[speaker002:] yes great show
[speaker001:] yeah and I like to listen to that and catch you know you I don't get I don't get a lot of uh sometimes I don't get the current events you know because that show kind of has feature stories that might not directly deal with uh you know some important issue on the day but
[speaker002:] yeah so so the real the real current news and the hard news
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] is is not a there's not really enough of it there
[speaker001:] right that's right yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I've had I've had that frustration too and I end up switching stations from time to time
[speaker001:] yeah yeah do you like you like NPR's uh programming
[speaker002:] uh in general you know um I watch
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] a lot of CNN uh and C-SPAN
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] um well I I subscribe to three newspapers
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um you know I sort of can't get enough of this
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and and I when I travel elsewhere I'm often amazed at the local papers how little they have
[speaker001:] how how how oh yeah oh yeah
[speaker002:] of of world world events and national events well in in Dallas what are the what is the newspaper situation
[speaker001:] well we don't we we have a a big newspaper situation uh because we used to have two newspapers up until uh last Sunday and a uh major um a one of our major papers just closed down they closed shop and said well we can't put any more papers out and we're done
[speaker002:] hm was was that the the better paper or compared to the the other
[speaker001:] yeah I thought so it was a it was a more effective paper as far as I was concerned it it had uh uh it got to the news you know and gave you the dirty facts pretty quick and easy
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh which I like I don't I don't like to you know I like to save the editorial information or the the politically uh weighted information you know for the for a different section I like just to get to the you know find out what's happening
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] pretty quick uh and I feel that the other newspaper uh uh the Times the Dallas Morning News is the one that's still here the Times Herald is the one that closed up
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh the the Morning News was was is is okay but you know you have to wade through a lot of editorial garbage as far as I'm concerned you know many times it doesn't doesn't reflect my own opinion and
[speaker002:] um-hum but if you if you were to look at the front page of today's Morning News Morning Times rather uh would would you would you see things about what's going on in Europe
[speaker001:] um-hum no no that's the problem uh you you know you see you see Troy Aikman's knee surgery on the front page you know
[speaker002:] oh whoever Troy Aikman is
[speaker001:] yeah yeah a a quarterback for the Broncos or for the for the Cowboys uh you know you know you know what I mean that there's uh local news that
[speaker002:] okay yeah
[speaker001:] uh that really a lot of times doesn't doesn't change change my life one way or the other so uh
[speaker002:] yeah I guess it's current events but not the kind of current events that changes the world
[speaker001:] right right yeah not something you'll you'll uh be interested in ten years from now by any means
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know how how about you uh I guess in Washington D C you guys have several papers that are pretty
[speaker002:] yes um I I rather like the Washington Post
[speaker001:] pretty effective don't you yeah
[speaker002:] but I also get the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh and you know each of them covers different things in in different different different in different ways and so it's
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] uh you know if I only looked at one of them I would have a different perspective clearly would have a different perspective on the world
[speaker001:] right yeah uh I I I have a question uh does does does the Wall Street Journal uh I I've kind of gathered lately that uh maybe their information is not just only related to business is that is that a correct assumption
[speaker002:] that that that is certainly true um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] they will they will have articles like a few days ago they had a a nice article on Einstein you know theory of relativity
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] you know that started on the front page and ran ran in into the full almost full page inside
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] now these are feature kind of articles all all the all the um
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] you know the bulk of the paper certainly is about business kinds of activities
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but but there's some very good other articles
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh you'll find in the in the Journal
[speaker001:] um-hum do you find that you're uh uh disappointed or pleased with uh uh the performance of like network coverage of news
[speaker002:] um I wish it were in more depth um that doesn't mean to say longer just more facts would be nice
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] um CNN has has you know was was pretty good during the war
[speaker001:] oh yeah definitely
[speaker002:] um and they were you know sort of had a unique vantage point for for doing that reporting
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but you know it's not it's it's uh never quite