okay
uh the topic is to discuss the uh sources where i receive news
uh-huh
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
uh-huh
well why was CNN the only of course i think Saddam Hussein only allowed CNN to broadcast it is that not true
um
it was unusual not to have the different sources you know of news coverage
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
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
more news than
CBS
were they
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
yeah
uh-huh
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
um-hum
that was you can't really be sure of the quality of what you got you know
hm
uh we had some uh some people from our church went to Israel uh just for a uh tour sort of thing
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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
right
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
yeah i guess the news just focuses on major events that probably
yeah
don't affect ninety nine percent of the people who are right there when the news is being made
right right
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
yeah
you know from anyone else's point of view but they'd get all blown up in the news
uh-huh
uh
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
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and uh we have a lot of bad stuff it just really gets me depressed even to watch it
um-hum yeah
so then you wake up one morning and you're in war with somebody you don't even know about it
right
so
oh what newspaper uh do you read in Dallas
uh we have the Dallas Times Herald and the Dallas Morning News but i don't
i don't read newspapers
don't you how come
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
huh
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
God that's uh that sounds pretty bad to me i mean who would steal a newspaper
you'd be surprised
hm
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
i see
yeah
so you're right who would steal a newspaper
but they do
yeah
what part of California are you from
uh from Los Angeles
but i live in Raleigh North Carolina right now that's where i'm speaking to you from
oh okay
but i grew up in LA
i work out here
huh you work for TI
no i don't i work for North Carolina State University
huh
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
yeah
well i boy current events is not a good subject for me
well
i don't keep up with it that often
let's see i've i've i've never done this before i mean i've never
this is your first call
this is my first call because i just got my password
uh-huh
oh really
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
yeah well i'd i got into a conversation last night with a lady and they interrupt at ten minutes
i see
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
uh-huh
well all right nice talking to you
all right bye
