so uh
where where do you get your current events
i'm i don't keep up on current events very well at all
okay
what i what i do on my i keep up on current events by as i walk by the newspaper stand if there is a headline that grabs my attention then i will stand there and look at it for a minute then walk into my office
maybe once every six months i'll i'll find something that's interesting enough that i'll buy the paper and then usually i read end up reading a lot of it
uh-huh um do you watch any television
uh no oh yeah i do i watch i watch Star Trek and sometimes i watch the Equalizer i never watch the news
oh
uh-huh huh
my roommates watch the news sometimes so sometimes i'll get
get interested in a news article so i guess a little bit leaks through there and uh sometimes on a on a plane or in a airport i'll i'll be sitting some somewhere and there will be a newspaper next to me and i'll read parts of it
uh-huh
uh-huh
but uh i don't make any deliberate effort to keep up on current events i probably about one of the least informed people around how about you
well um i used to read the whole paper every day
wow
and uh when you when i did that i really knew stuff you know i mean if you read the whole paper every day you walk into work and you're like you want to talk to people about
so what do you think about the situation in West Pakistan like this the parliamentary government's not going not you know not going to stay in there and people sort of stare at you uh
but now i have a child and i i read the comics every day
uh-huh
um and i sort of glance at the front page uh i also used to listen to um public radio
tried to listen to that every evening for the news and every morning and when i when i was doing that and reading the paper i really i really felt informed uh especially having the two different viewpoints uh slightly different anyway uh
uh-huh
now i listen to the radio
maybe five minutes in the morning and i don't get to listen evening some i'm pretty pretty uninformed uh but those were my two big ones the newspaper and the radio
yeah we have a news station here that i listen to sometimes on the way to work but it's a short drive
uh
uh-huh yeah oh that was the other thing i used to drive to work i used to have a long commute and i would listen to every morning on uh
uh-huh
public radio there's a show called Morning Edition that lasts an hour and a half and
um-hum
they repeat the main headlines every half-hour so i would listen to two segments of that and you know really really know stuff and now that i'm just walking and riding the bus um
wow
i i miss that
uh
the uh the well during the during the Gulf War we turned on the TV a couple times did you watch watch any more during that
in the Gulf War
yeah
uh that i have to say that during the Gulf War yeah i watched a lot of CNN
the whole Iraq thing
uh-huh
i really did uh because i was pretty interested in that and i have a a an Iranian roommate
um-hum
um-hum
and uh so he had on constantly
oh yeah i'll bet
and uh so and actually i learned a lot from him about world situations and also i have a bunch of Persian friends because of him and so
oh yeah you probably learned a lot from them yeah
yeah and they are always telling me about countries i have never heard of and political political situations that totally amaze me
yeah yeah there's so much to know it is amazing
and so
um
well uh one thing that was interesting during that whole thing was i would listen to the radio quite a bit and uh you know i started bringing a radio to work and i would listen a little bit at work and listen on the way home and on the way the way there and uh
i really felt like i was keeping up pretty well and then i would watch CNN for you know fifteen minutes or a half hour and see a bunch of pictures and realize i hadn't really learned anything
you know they sort of show planes taking off and uh
like i i got more visual information but less
less content
real information in a way
they were kind of starved for real information i think at that point because all they had was was military clips and
uh-huh
yeah and it's almost as though
that was stuff was more available to TV so they used it
yeah well they have to show something
you know they have to show something and that's all they could show on TV they could i mean on the radio they would bring in all sorts of you know experts from God knows where and interview them and talk to them about it and speculate
uh i think in part at least because they had to
uh which is kind of interesting so i just found that they the information per hour was much higher on the radio although the TV was a little more compelling
i never thought about that
the information per hour well technically the information on the TV is higher but the actual content is less
right it's it's an interesting question about
you know the bandwidth of the television
