okay
 		well let's see
 	
 	
 		uh probably uh in the last few weeks the biggest uh way i've had of keeping up with what was going on in the Gulf was CNN and i think maybe that's probably true for everyone
 	
 	
 		right uh we don't uh get that in uh straight fashion but you know the other major channels have been carrying a lot of it so i've seen a good bit of their coverage
 	
 	
 		oh
 		well we get we get the
 		first you know it comes directly to us from CNN and it's a continuous coverage and course they repeat themselves a lot  and it was really easy when
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 	
 	
 		as we said well nothing's happening in the war because now they're interviewing the what seems to be dozens of Mideast experts all at once
 	
 	
 		right oh they've really done uh good job of keeping everybody informed of what's going on sometimes i've wondered if it wasn't almost more than we needed to know
 	
 	
 		hm
 		a little much yes we have uh we're a town of five thousand and so our local newspaper is not too swift
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 		well our um newspaper does a pretty good job on most things but you know its uh not totally in depth and quite frankly i didn't read all of the war stuff
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		you know it was just there were too many long article and i try to quickly read through the paper before work in the morning so i don't don't get to spend a lot of time on everything
 	
 	
 		so you are off to work this morning
 	
 	
 		i'm at work yes
 	
 	
 		oh you're at work oh i assumed that these were home telephone numbers
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 	
 	
 		uh we also get a Chicago uh paper and course that's where our main coverage as far as world events are concerned our local paper is just current events
 	
 	
 		what about your uh radio stations do they uh provide much in the way of current event stuff
 	
 	
 		in our town of five thousand we have one that is uh local FM AM station and their news is fed from CNN too uh it's more of uh
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		oh call in for a trading post type thing and uh the fifty music from the fifties and uh  it's i guess what you'd expect from a farming community
 	
 	
 		uh-huh well i've lived in a small town before and was quite aware of the local radio station at that time and i know how they are
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		well ours uh that we
 		tend to listen to most um i like the way they handle news type things because in the morning and in the evening they'll have you know five minutes worth of news every half hour
 	
 	
 		hm
 	
 	
 		but in the middle of the day they don't just drown you with the same old stuff and they won't interrupt unless it's you know really important
 	
 	
 		
 
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		and and of course they did a good bit for some of the war stuff but they didn't just over do it
 	
 	
 		i only watch one soap opera a day and it seems to me and that's probably about once every two months since my husband retired it seems to me so often times that they cut into that soap opera
 		with what i don't really consider as earth shaking i guess maybe i think sometimes the uh the coverage is almost too intent
 	
 	
 		yeah
 		i think so i i don't really think we
 		need to know or even sometimes care so much about all the little nitty-gritty things they keep asking over and over i think think the reporters sometimes ask the silliest questions
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 		you mean when the reporter sticks the the microphone in the person says the face and says how do you feel that you house has burned to the ground
 	
 	
 		yeah  things like that are just kind of absurd or once in a while they'll they'll keep uh just hounding someone that they're interviewing
 	
 	
 		that's a bit much isn't it
 		
 
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		and there seems to be no purpose um you know the person has stated you know some opinion or fact or whatever and that should be the end of it and they just keep on and on and on
 	
 	
 		
 
 		i guess maybe they have so much time to fill i've thought often times that maybe our world was a little bit better place when i was in high school and the world and the news like your radio station was on
 		fifteen minutes in the evening and then they went on to i don't know i think the Andy Williams show or something that filled up the other fifteen minutes of that half hour and we just weren't so heavy with it
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 		yeah
 	
 	
 		well it's sure been nice visiting with you
 	
 	
 		well you too
 	
 	
 		we're having sleet and rain in Indiana this morning so
 	
 	
 		oh well we're having sunshine i think it's gonna be up in the seventies today so
 	
 	
 		oh well have a good day then  bye-bye
 	
 	
 		you too  good-bye