so i get most of my news i i am sorry to say from CNN Headline News
so i'm not sure how remarkably well informed i am by their like three second sound bytes about everything
but uh i'm a college student at this point and uh when i come in when i turn that on for half an hour i see what's going on and then i turn it off and
so how do you get your news
uh to tell you the truth i get most of my stuff uh news from printed media um news magazines like Time uh newspapers
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i'll watch television at in the evening for local news but uh
you know for national things i i tend to go more for printed media uh media because they they don't give you the three sound bytes the three seconds uh gee he looks good in a in a camera you know uh although i have to admit i'm dissatisfied with the
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quality that you get in the newspapers it's unfortunate but
which newspapers in particular like USA Today
that's been
well uh well let's see uh no no actually we're LA Times we also get the New York Times out here um
oh
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and then of course there are lots of specialized publications for you know i work in engineering so you get engineering uh stuff uh what i found is that uh
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uh you know you are subjected to censorship uh even though that's a bad word uh what happens is an editor has to decide what will fit in the newspaper and what gets dropped on the floor and that's censorship
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well that i think that comes about from the fact that that the the news gathering business is is just that a business
that's right
so they're going to tell you what sells and also although i don't believe this is really that rampant at now uh you know sponsors or or advertisers could have some influence as well over over what uh eventually gets printed
i uh
i i agree with that i've seen that in several uh computer magazines where you know if the guy buys six pages of of color ads then he gets a pretty good review in when they review products
yeah
and also i think you'll also notice if you ever do watch CNN Headline News that anytime Ted Turner does anything he shows up on there
uh gets a favorable light cast on it
yeah you you know what though uh i kind of wish that i would uh watch more local news because i end up uh sometimes missing things and hearing them secondhand just because i never do sit down to watch the real news
well you know there's a big problem with the the local news is something we've noticed i mean out here in LA we get gang shootings you know
yeah
and so what you can do is you turn on the local news and if it's a bad weekend the first fifteen minutes on a on a Sunday night or a Monday night will be how many people got shot and killed
i think that's the way it usually is they they work from the you know the headline stories you know those ones basically people being killed and murdered and and suffering then they go into like
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you know sports and weather then they end up on the really nice stuff so that you're not depressed by the time you're done watching the broadcast
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a lot of a lot of times though there there isn't the really nice stuff
oh really
oh yeah the uh in in at least the the news stations that we watch here in LA and i mean you know it's it's uh uh maybe it's just because they're stuck with more bad news than good news
um it's a possiblity
uh but uh you know it's it's it's unfortunate but even even now i mean i used to live in Europe and we still get uh we lived in Germany and so we still get some German language magazines some
where in Europe
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i get the
okay we get
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and uh the thing is that you know that of course is slanted
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from a German point of view and uh you know what you notice are the glaring differences between how America perceives
some monumentous event in the world versus how the Germans perceive that same event
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and i mean it's uh you know the the difficulty is that okay they're it's a business over there like it is here they're slanting it toward their uh public and we're slanting it toward our public and you know the question is what's the real truth
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well i think that's
uh it's kind of related to like who writes history because obviously the the news eventually does become history it's just always going to be someone's the prevailing opinion
yeah
well unless you have a particularly strong
the winners
disparity and there are two you know two competing views exist
well it's also again um you know the
the uh the the people who write the history it's their view and from wherever they happen to be i mean what we've noticed is that um
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uh the the way the uh the Americans are handling Russia the Germans view that as a critical new market and the Americans are well you know the
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apart from McDonald's
well yeah yeah and the uh the thing is that the Americans are well we don't really don't want to get involved with that we don't want to help them they've got to learn to help themselves you know free market economy
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