so how do you uh so it so it sounds like you've got a television going on there so i can assume that you probably watch TV news is that
i almost never watch TV news i get most of my news driving back and forth to work listening to the radio
really wow
uh what what station do you listen to
uh it's a local radio station it's called uh
KLIF cliff
cliff i see so um it's not affiliated with anything is it not not a network station okay yeah because i i listen to uh public radio a lot and they have
no no
they have KCRW which i i i saw a thing recently they may be trying to start their own uh cable TV outlet i guess they're getting a little getting a little feisty now
well this has this station has a lot of just ongoing news
uh
and occasionally in the morning i'll pick up something like uh CNN or that but i hate watching the like ten o'clock news or
yeah so you have a paper or something or
yeah we have a local well we have uh Dallas Morning News which is the big paper in Dallas we read it i read it pretty much
um-hum
yeah
from cover to cover
how do you like it it's been it's been a while since i read the Dallas news i uh
fact last time i read the Dallas Dallas news i was in Arkansas
uh
the Times Herald went out of business here
oh yeah
and so we really only have one Dallas newspaper and one Fort Worth newspaper
well that must be pretty bad
so
how did that happen anyway
uh financial trouble
no not how i mean when did it when did they yeah
oh when did it happen
i guess they closed down about three months ago
oh really
huh
so how do you keep up
oh me i um good grief i read the Times Los Angeles Times there's uh
quite a task if you've ever run into one they're uh specially
yes they're very voluminous
yeah they're thick um
if there's something you want to know it's it's in the Times and then in in detail
um
they uh we we used to have two papers here in town and then the Herald Examiner collapsed about two years ago because of
oh i don't know just just nobody was buying it really
so there really is only one major LA newspaper now
yeah pretty much um there used to be in fact i think there still is the uh the Daily News which runs out of the San Fernando Valley
and um they're not bad as far as a uh you know as far as a local paper goes in fact it was kind of weird because i met the uh i met the i met the editor
uh while i was on uh while i was doing jury service in Santa Monica one time it was like we just sat around and talk about newspapers and stuff he was a really cool guy
um you know went to Columbia University and all this stuff
and uh it's it's a pretty good paper but um you know it's not the it's not the Times
yeah
although i see you know i'm starting to see some of their um there's there's a daily new
uh news rack right around the corner from where i live which means that they're they're expanding i guess
but uh and and occasionally i i pick up like Time magazine or something i think uh if they've got an interesting lead story but
you know it's i i don't have time
i used to read Time magazine a lot but i don't read it much anymore
yeah that's that's kind of a problem for them there's a lot of people who fall into that category
and then we have a local rag here in town that i pick up periodically and read just to see what's going on in our little community
uh-huh
i see
because we don't get an awful lot of coverage in the Dallas Morning News
yeah the big dailies don't like to don't like to step much out of their uh out of their home turf i have to admit the Times is kind of provincial too
it's basically anything that's south of downtown they don't bother to cover
now they have started here running a three day or three times a week Plano section
uh-huh
and it's just sort of a you know four or five pages that covers what's going on in Plano
but it's still not an awful lot of news
yeah i know
i uh
it was it was a big discovery when when the Times when the Times found out there was a place called Orange County
i mean the way they i mean the way they've been handling it before they practically they practically acted like their reporters needed shots to go south of the LA county border
oh i would imagine in uh you know in Dallas they have plenty happening in Dallas to cover that it gets hard covering all of the suburbs suburbs and
of course they tend to cover the county and we're not in Dallas county so they tend to ignore places outside of the county
yeah
oh really
yeah yeah i i i find that attitude kind of arrogant though it's like you're taking our money but you're not bothering to cover things that are interesting to us
yeah
