so how do you keep up with the news
most of it is TV
um do you read the newspaper
yes i do we get a daily and then i get uh the Wall Street Journal also
um what daily
it's the uh Charlotte Observer
Charlotte Observer um
is that there in your city
yes right
uh-huh so uh
the Wall Street Journal gives financial news and other information i'm interested in
so uh
do you think you get anything from your local newspaper
yes but it's usually after the fact uh as far as the major topics because most of the other has been on TV don't you agree
um yeah i don't i'm not exactly sure how good the national news is though how accurate exactly
yeah
oh i think uh during the Middle East Crisis there was a problem in terms of too quick to try to get a scoop and not checking facts out and i think that's probably a a good relevant uh
uh fear of all of it yeah i didn't see a movie a long time ago but it was about the news team that um
fear
tried to influence the world and i i have a feeling that they're much more into themselves sometimes than they are into what the world um is ready to hear they create news
yeah it seems like they're not really trying to report the news they are trying to report how the news affects them
yeah yeah i think so too
or where they're at with the news or something along those lines
uh
radio is sort of a catch up in fact i was um listening to the radio the other day and that they were reporting on the condition of an of an accident victim
and i had already seen on the news about an hour before that that accident victim had died but the radio news report was that he was still in intensive care so it's one of those um
it the most immediate is TV The others are catch up and fill in
yeah a little bit of color or something for
the lack of total information that was given on the TV lack they give immediate for the lack of total
uh-huh
how do you feel the newspapers there in Colorado Springs treats local interest news
well
rather biasedly i think i believe huh very pro city
uh-huh
uh for the city fathers but uh
it seems almost as though they don't
care about how the national news affects the local area
uh-huh
uh i think about other topics too i i'd like to go to a city and sort of look at the front page and find out what is going on in that city but it's always the national information that you have to flip through to find out
anything special about the city and i think that's uh
yeah and then they give give you just the local O bits and that's it
uh-huh
uh-huh
and
and well hell you don't know know those people that died or or what from
no the older you get the more you know though
well what i mean is do you if your in a strange city you certainly don't know them
oh right right yeah that's true what type of work are you in
i work for Texas Instruments
okay uh that uh is a news worthy company in itself so you're you would be interested in any news related to it yeah
uh yes and yourself
oh i'm i'm consulting right now i'm in between jobs so it makes uh it makes a difference i'm i'm interested in many more industries than i used to be just in terms of looking around so it
yeah i understand
i've been in the oil and gas business and then higher education and um done a few other things including international uh accounting so
huh that's interesting i've always considered myself uh
how is this best put
the the Charles Bollfield trash
oh okay uh uh
grew up in West Texas thank you
yeah yeah i understand that i was in Oklahoma so i i know the area very well
yeah yeah
yeah
uh
um so do you think our local do you think our national news tells us anything important
oh yes they'll they'll tell you a lot that's important but the trouble is the value do you watch Sixty Minutes and some of those other
um yeah i i i watch Sixty Minutes
i
i wonder sometimes where they get those topics you know some of the topics are very very good and others are like uh who who who dreamed this subject up you know
almost religiously
well and
and far as affecting a national audience i wonder sometimes
and more importantly than that i wonder how
the other side of the story is
uh-huh
yeah
and of course they're not going to tell the other side of the story and they're not going to tell it accurately
no
but i do enjoy we are here temporarily i enjoyed having CNN so that i could tune in the news any time i wanted to and not wait for network broadcasting
uh we don't we don't have cable
okay it's it's a good addition because i think they're
they have a lot of news obviously all the time and there's not the pressure then
yeah we've watched little bits here and there during the Gulf Crisis and we
uh-huh
yeah
the
i didn't exactly i wasn't exactly sure how accurate it was either
oh i think it it too is under pressure
and it seemed as though during the Gulf Crisis it might have been under pressure from
the incorrect side
uh-huh oh yes it was there are games played
i i'm not sure how to phrase that
uh delicately
psychological warfare is a big factor all the way around um
it's been it's been a big factor for many many years but this is the first uh first time we have seen it so quickly and so close up
yeah it is
it
i i didn't feel comfy you know i you know you always hear about the warm fuzzy feeling
uh-huh
i kept watching that
be it CNN in a bar or or or or local news at home or federal news at home or or see uh
uh-huh
we don't subscribe to our Colorado Springs paper we subscribe to the Denver paper
Denver paper okay
and uh but on occasion more than occasionally we'll buy the local paper
uh-huh uh-huh
and
that warm fuzzy that we're talking about i never could get that warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach about
are these people really telling me the truth or more importantly all the truth
yeah i think all the truth is is the big issue they obviously had to be telling a lot of truth because they were there reporting firsthand but in terms of
well i'd suspect that to be true but you couldn't prove it to me
yeah yeah
and and
most importantly i
couldn't believe any of those people
they didn't
seem believable
did you just switch back and forth between programs
oh all four um well we have the independent here and we've got the three majors and PBS and we watched
all four of those and on more than occasionally i went to a bar that had CNN running around the clock
uh-huh
and
still i got this feeling as though
from these six or eight news sources i had that something was missing
uh i think they they withhold when it's advantageous both sides both sides and i think when Norman announced afterwards on the Barbara Walters Show
and
oh Storming Norman
yes that um he knew you know what to expect out of Saddam Saddam Hussein
that he was playing games you know and and they both were i think that's all part of warfare is to play games
oh of course and you've got to expect that
yeah
but i had the feeling
that no matter who i listened to it wasn't that they weren't telling me the truth i felt that someone was lying to me
and
there's nothing there still at this state that i can put my finger on and say oh here's where they lied to me
yeah
just a feeling
yeah well let's hope we don't have to go through that again
yes wouldn't it be wonderful if there were no more wars
oh that would be nice i hope we never never get to but i'm afraid um human nature is such that somewhere there'll be a fanatic that will start something
and more importantly
wouldn't it be nice in this land of the free and home of the brave
if there were never again be any misinformation
oh yes oh yes
