so are are you a news person
uh i really am i enjoy i enjoy listening to the news and getting as much as i can although you know i'm a full-time student and i work full-time too so or not full-time but i work quite a bit and so so i mostly depend on the radio
yes
you know on the way to work i like i like to listen to National Public Radio uh All Things Considered
yes great show
yeah and i like to listen to that and catch you know you i don't get i don't get a lot of uh sometimes i don't get the current events you know because that show kind of has feature stories that might not directly deal with uh
you know some important issue on the day but
yeah so so the real the real current news and the hard news
yeah
is is not a there's not really enough of it there
right that's right yeah
yeah i've had i've had that frustration too and i end up switching stations from time to time
yeah
yeah do you like you like NPR's uh programming
uh in general you know um i watch
yeah uh-huh
a lot of CNN uh and C-SPAN
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well i i subscribe to three newspapers
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you know i sort of can't get enough of this
yeah
and and i when i travel elsewhere i'm often amazed at the local papers how little they have
how how how oh yeah oh yeah
of of world world events and national events
well in in Dallas what are the what is the newspaper situation
well we don't we we have a a big newspaper situation uh
because we used to have two newspapers up until uh last Sunday and a uh major um a one of our major papers just closed down they closed shop and said well we can't put any more papers out and we're done
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was was that the the better paper or compared to the the other
yeah i thought so it was a it was a more effective paper as far as i was concerned it it had uh uh it got to the news you know and gave you the dirty facts pretty quick and easy
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uh which i like i don't i don't like to you know i like to save the editorial information or the the politically uh weighted information you know for the for a different section i like just to get to the you know find out what's happening
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pretty quick uh and i feel that the other newspaper uh uh the Times the Dallas Morning News is the one that's still here the Times Herald is the one that closed up
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and uh the the Morning News was was is is okay but you know you have to wade through a lot of editorial
garbage as far as i'm concerned you know many times it doesn't doesn't reflect my own opinion and
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but if you if you were to look at the front page of today's Morning News Morning Times rather uh would would you would you see things about what's going on in Europe
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no no that's the problem uh you you know you see you see Troy Aikman's knee surgery on the front page you know
oh
whoever Troy Aikman is
yeah yeah a a quarterback for the Broncos or for the for the Cowboys uh you know you know you know what i mean that there's uh local news that
okay
yeah
uh that really a lot of times doesn't doesn't change
change my life one way or the other so uh
yeah
i guess it's current events but not the kind of current events that changes the world
right right yeah not something you'll you'll uh be interested in ten years from now by any means
yeah
you know how how about you uh i guess in Washington D C you guys have several papers that are pretty
yes um i i rather like the Washington Post
pretty effective don't you
yeah
but i also get the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
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uh and you know each of them covers different things in in different different different in different ways and so it's
right right
uh you know if i only looked at one of them i would have a different perspective clearly would have a different perspective on the world
right yeah uh i i i have a question uh does does does the Wall Street Journal uh i i've kind of gathered lately that uh maybe their information is not just only related to business is that is that a correct assumption
that that that is certainly true um
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they will they will have articles like a few days ago they had a a nice article on Einstein you know theory of relativity
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you know that started on the front page and ran ran in into the full almost full page inside
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now these are feature kind of articles all all the all the um
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you know the bulk of the paper certainly is about business kinds of activities
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but but there's some very good other articles
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uh you'll find in the in the Journal
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um i wish it were in more depth um that doesn't mean to say longer just more facts would be nice
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CNN has has you know was was pretty good during the war
oh yeah definitely
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and they were you know sort of had a unique vantage point for for doing that reporting
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but you know it's not it's it's uh never quite
