yes
do you rely on newspapers or TV or what for your current events
well uh mostly the radio i listen to the radio i'm home during the day and so i have the radio going and listen to the news there and then uh
i watch the news on TV at night we have a local newspaper that we subscribe to but that's
um all the newspaper my husband and i used to take the the Wall Street Journal and that had a lot of good information
are you in Salt Lake City
we're fifty miles north
so you're a suburb of it then
right right so we don't take the Salt Lake newspaper how about
okay
we have we have in Dallas what's called talk radio
oh yes
and it's news twenty four hours a day
uh-huh
you don't listen to it twenty four hours
if you're in the car for twenty minutes in traffic you sure get a bunch of news real quick
get caught up on it fast
so you primarily rely on on the radio
right
right yes and we have um the station we listen to is out of Kansas or out of Salt Lake City and it's an all news or an all talk station also it doesn't have the
right
the music and thing so
do you have where these people call in express their opinions and talk back
yes yeah
yeah same thing down here it's uh really gets some really neat information that way don't we
uh right get a lot of different different viewpoints have you
i definitely take the morning newspaper and read the headlines of every morning and uh
uh-huh and that helps keep up on too how about magazines do you take any magazines
i
at the office
nothing newsworthy uh uh National Geographic Reader's Digest
oh
oh
uh i'm afraid we're probably reliant on newspapers and radio
right that
television news i'm not interested in their in them
right that you don't like the television news the television reports
uh no i don't uh especially in depth things like 60 Minutes
but
oh uh-huh
or or whatever else they call i think they're very biased
they are right presents one viewpoint and not the other
uh
uh
journalistic uh they'll go into some guy's office with TV cameras rolling and
uh-huh
because he sticks up his hand doesn't want to be seen he's considered he's supposed to be considered guilty
uh-huh
they're charging they're making a man look guilty before he's even given a chance to hear his side of the story but
well you know i think there's a lot of that in the newspaper reporting too i because a lot and i don't know how much of what we read is is really accurate a few of the stories that
definitely
that you know i've been personably person known what's going on and then you read what's in the newspaper about it and it doesn't always match up
so
you really wonder what you hear from this Russia thing that going on is is Yeltsin all that great you know is he really going to
um-hum
it sounds as more and more came out that he and what's his name is gone now
um-hum Gorbachev yeah
Gorbachev Gorbachev got into a political quarrel about three years ago and uh
oh
Gorbachev just got beat to the punch politically
oh
and i mean even with a guy Gorbachev goes to his office to clean out his desk for the next day and Yeltsin is already there sitting there
uh-huh
oh that's ugly
uh it is and and like you say we really i'm really not sure how much of what we hear is reliable
um-hum
we uh my family and i went out we have a golden spike
um railroad
monument oh it's probably about fifty miles from here and
um-hum
last Friday we went out there to watch the train come in the steam engine and there was uh there was a probably a group of
oh maybe fifty to seventy five people out there and the newspaper reporter was there and he took a picture and it was in the paper the next day and it
hundreds
well just the opposite they probably had oh ten people in the picture and he said
um just a small group had turned out to watch the steam engine come in and the way it was printed and the way the picture was it looked like that was all there was was right there when there was
i'll be dad gummed
quite quite a few more there you know so
um
i think you have to be careful when when we take in the information what we take as truth and what we don't
we lost the second major newspaper in Dallas within this month
oh i read that
the Dallas Times Herald went under we were one of the few
yes
few cities remaining big cities that had two papers
uh-huh
and and we're sorry now you got the Fort Worth Press and uh uh no Fort Worth Star Telegram The Press went years ago and the Dallas Mourning News and
oh
oh was it financial trouble that's what they went under for wasn't it
yep yep competition killed them and and then well the Morning News finally bought out the the Herald
oh
oh yes oh well that's that's too bad which one did did you subscribe to that one
of course closed it down
but
oh i've been with the Dallas Morning News for twenty years
oh ah
it is the conservative paper and i'm probably lean to being conservative as opposed to liberal so and the other was kind of the liberal paper so
uh-huh
uh-huh oh
oh huh well that
so i feel sorry for all the liberals in town they have to read the good stuff now
oh yes well that's i think Tom and i think um
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