hey um generally i am majority majority majority of the news that i get is from uh AM radio in the mornings but going to and from work i we have like uh a a WCBS station which which just kind of fires through all the top topics
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how do you uh how do you generally find out what's going on in the world
oh i don't know
oh i listen in the car but my commute is only only a mile so
uh but uh you know i have the uh radio wake me up in the morning so i get i get some headlines there
oh okay
i read the usenet news
okay
uh
really i'm not getting the good quality news that i want
and i i bought a TV last year
but but i don't really watch it
you're behind
yeah
oh and i don't i don't believe
i don't get any in depth stuff
i used to have uh i used to have cable and uh the thing that i really miss um
since uh since i lost cable and there's that not that much on there that i miss but uh
Headline News was always good because i could get a quick roundup of whatever the top topics were in in like a half hour span and in Around the World in Thirty Minutes i think was their big thing
and the other thing i used to i uh i miss is CNN um CNN used to go a little bit more in depth um you would get uh like Crossfire you would get you know different different perspectives from usually from like the left and the right liberal and conservative
arguing the various uh
oh Crossfire yeah i saw that a couple of times
i think Patrick Buchanan who's now running for president used to be the uh conservative side for that
who did they have i've my friends who watch CNN all the time they like knew these guys
i can't think of the name of the guy that represented the left
yeah uh i saw the uh
McLaughlin had a similar type of a program on
yeah
i guess Buchanan retired from that also
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that that's a good show i like that one a lot
yeah that's actually on a network isn't it
yeah it's on i guess it was on PBS for a while
that's exactly right
probably still is
and and uh see because i've run into that a couple of times on accident and uh ended up watching it for like extended periods of time but that's how i get most of my news is is
yeah
yeah PBS PBS PBS uh you know MacNeil Lehrer or uh NPR usually have some decent in depth stuff
i tried listening to NPR but uh uh i mean in the mornings i don't in the mornings i want i want a little i want you know the the yeah the USA Today feed you know give me a couple of color graphs and uh and i'll be happy
headlines
oh God i hate that
yeah we have uh you know the local newspaper is is pretty weak
uh
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but uh
and i once in a every once in a while like every six months or every three months i read the Times
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the Times is pretty good
the only thing that scares me about um the way i do news is
getting it from like these pre digested sources you know like the like the
typically what i've heard maybe it's just the people i hang around with but typically i hear people saying that like uh
the news on TV and what not tends to be um more on the left hand side it tends to be a little bit more liberal and if nothing else it does tend to be more editorialized than these are the facts
well not only that but it's so little there's no background
true too
uh you know i rely a lot to tell you the truth on uh you know when i was growing up i learned geography i'd read the Times a lot so you know and every every
day there'd be an article on some country you know what's doing in that country this week
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you know because there's enough countries that uh you know there'd be something interesting happening
pretty much and i got a pretty good feel for
you know and um that and taking some economics classes you get a pretty good feel for how the world works
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so when you hear a story then you say well what aren't they telling you
yeah
and then you start conjecturing and that's where i hate i hate it because you know i can guess what's happening but i don't know the real truth
and uh they just they leave out so much
but see i think you and i perhaps i i think uh well i get the feeling that that you and i perhaps might might take the time to try and figure out exactly what really happened as opposed to what they're telling us even though they maybe close
yeah
but i wonder how much of the rest of America takes the time to to stop with just the the straight spoon fed you know
huh you can stop wondering
they don't care
yeah yeah well especially when you figure what a third of the people that bother to vote always vote Republican a third of the people that always that bother to vote always vote Democrat and
