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Okay. /I guess we're set. /
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{F Um, } /
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Current events. /
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I get my current events basically from news, {F uh, } just because I watch,
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# Television news? # /
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# pretty much # a lot of television, {F um, } /
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Is it, {F uh, } C N N or HEADLINE NEWS or just local,
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# {F Uh, } # /
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# news # /{C or, } -/
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I watch a little bit of everything. /I like to tune [ into, + to ] C N N because, {F uh, } {D you know, } you can tune in {D like } any time of day and pretty much get the update on,
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# Right. # /
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# everything, #
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# Right. # /
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# in # about five or ten minutes. /I think news today, {F um, } it's kind of losing its importance. /{D Like } [ [ on, + in, ] + on ] radio, if you hear any news at all, it's like two seconds. /
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Right. /
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{D You know, } really quickly,
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# {D Well, } # -/
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# on # regular stations. /
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on commercial radio, I guess, [ I, + I ] tend to get more of my news from national public radio of the morning on the way to work,
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# Yeah, /that's good, too, /uh-huh. # /
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# or evening on the way # to school /[ {C so, } +
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I like K R L D. /
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{C So, } ] [ I don't, + {F uh, }
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Uh-huh. /
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I don't ] see much T V mostly when I'm in school, /{C but } I do here. /
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Yeah, /where do you go to school? /
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{F Uh, } University of Texas at Dallas. /
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{F Oh, } Okay. /I went to U T at Austin. /
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Right. /
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{C But, } {F uh, } I'm a news reporter /{C so } [ I, +
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Really. /
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{C But, } {F um, } -/
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I do tend to throw on HEADLINE NEWS when I'm doing things around the house and just let it play,
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# Yeah, # /
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# and # listen, /{C but, } {F uh, } -/
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I usually don't intentionally. Although [ I should, + I don't ] intentionally turn on the television to watch news. /
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Right. /
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{C Or } I don't intentionally turn on the radio to listen to the news. /If it comes on, I just happen to hear it. /{D Now, } I will intentionally buy a newspaper [ [ to wa-, + to, ] +
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# Yeah, /# all I ever get out of the paper is a Sunday paper /
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Yeah, /that's true. /
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# That's about it, /# yeah. /
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The Sunday paper, it's so full of stuff, /{C but } you pick your favorite section, /{C and } the rest,
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# Right. # /
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# you # throw away. /
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Right. /
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Although you paid, what, almost two dollars now to get it /{C but, } -/
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I like to listen to, {F uh, } national public radio on the way to work because [ it's, + I don't know, it's ] variety, /
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# Uh-huh. # /
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It --
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Yeah. /
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-- tends to get like HEADLINE NEWS if you listen to it for an hour (( )) . /
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[ Is it, + is it ] pretty good coverage on there? /
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Yeah, /it usually is. /They throw in [ a lot of, + {D you know, } a lot of ] interviews and commentaries. /It's kind of like getting a newspaper. /There's a lot of --
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Yeah, /yeah. /
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-- sections to it /{C and } --
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{F Um. } /
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-- [ they, + they ] present different sides of things. /
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{C Because } I find like on K R L D, - /I like to listen to that, /{C but } each story is {D like } no more than two or three lines, {D you know. } /
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{F Oh, } {D well } they spend a little more time, {D you know, } /they cover the headlines, /
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# Yeah. # /
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# {C and # then } they go into a lot of the issues and --
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Uh-huh. /
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-- things where [ they, + they ] spend five or ten minutes discussing something and,
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# Yeah, /that would probably be better. # /
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# interviewing people. /{C And } it's, # -/
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Especially when you look for the, {D like, } popular radio stations like mostly the music stations, news [ is, + is ] pretty much nonexistent. /
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Yeah. /
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They have [ little, + little, ] teeny-weeny news,
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breaks, {D you know. } /
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Yeah, /{C and } only in the morning, I guess, there's a little bit. /
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Yeah, /yeah, /basically. /
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I haven't listened to a
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Yeah. /
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{D So, } -/
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{C So } let's see, {F um, } /
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{C And } I guess I get some kinds of other, {D you know, } business related news through trade journals and things /{C but, } -/
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Uh-huh. /
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{F Uh, } /Right
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# {C But, } {F um, } # -/
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# a lot # of people are. /
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Yeah, /
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Yeah, /where nobody wants,
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# {C And } I think it, # -/
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# to sit down and # read. /
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Yeah, /yeah. /
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[ It's, + it ] takes a lot more time to read something, /
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# Yeah. # /
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# {C and } # you've got news,
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# So much more effort. # /
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# bombarding you from everywhere # now. /
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# Yeah. # /
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# {D You # know } you,
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# Yeah. # /
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# turn # on the T V, turn on the radio. -/
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{C But } I think that soon the paper may be kind of the only source again. /
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Why is that? /
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I don't, - /{D well, } just because [ I'm, + I'm ] thinking that [ it, + it's ] getting so short on radio. /[ You still, + you ] have two or three, - /I know in Dallas you can probably get [ two, + two ] all news radio stations out of I don't how many popular radio stations. /{C And then } on television, you have just the news at six and ten. /
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Yeah, /I just, -/
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{C And } [ I just, + I just ] see that dwindling [ in, + in, ] -/
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I find it hard to believe that people will go back to reading over television, {E I mean, } just given the way society is. /{C And } I enjoy reading, /{C but } most --
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True, /yeah. /
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-- people would rather turn on the tube [ [ and, + and, ] + and, ]
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# True. /That's true, too, /yeah. # /
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# flip through the channels, {D you # know, } and get the headline news at thirty minutes of, /
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Than sit down and take the effort to read --
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Right. /
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-- the paper. /
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{C And } they don't have to go get one, {D you know. } /
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One thing I like about the paper, {F um, } as opposed
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Right. /Right. /
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Whereas in the paper, I like to read the articles because they get every side, every single side, /
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Right. /{D Well, } that's why I like, {F uh, } national public radio --
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Uh-huh. /
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-- because they get on one of these little things, /they give you headlines that are brief, /just, - /they touch on what's going on. /{C And then } they'll get into something and really explore it. /
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Uh-huh, /uh-huh. /
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{C And } [ it's, + it's ] informative. /It's a lot more informative than, {D you know, } quick, half hour news shows that --
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Yeah. /
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-- they tell you what they want you to hear. /
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Yeah, /{C because } that's what we do. /{E I mean } it's like each story is thirty seconds, {D you know. } /
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Right. /
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{C So } it's like you really have to tell as much as you can which is not much in that amount of time. /[ {C So, } + {C and } ] it will probably get shorter and shorter as the years go by I think. /I don't know. /
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Yeah, /there's so much going on in the world. /
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Uh-huh. /
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Communication, {D you know, } expands the world now. /
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{F Oh, } yeah. /
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There's too much going on. /You can't afford to give more than a couple of seconds here and there. /
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I think that is one good thing, one great thing, about news, /{C and } we saw it during the war just now, is that we got all the information within minutes, {D you know. } /
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Yeah. /
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Whatever happened, we knew about it about the same time that they knew about it. /
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{C And } the question is, [ how much of it + {E or } how, some of it, ] - /I guess, there's a lot of debate about censorship [ and -- +
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Yeah, /yeah. /
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-- and ] what we're really seeing. /
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Uh-huh. /
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[ Is it, + is it ] the true story /{C or } is it a --
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Yeah. /
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-- little bit biased. /
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{C Because } even though we do get the story right away, they were censored as to what they --
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Right. /
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-- could tell us. /{C So } all we had to sit here [ and, + and ] ask is {D well, } what aren't they telling us, {D you know. } /{C So } [ that, + that ] was pretty scary. /{C But } we, - /I talked to one woman, /{C and } she said that she didn't want to know what was going on because if she had a son over in Saudi Arabia, she wouldn't want to know, {D you know, } that they're bombing [ or, + or ] this and that's going on. /{C And } at the same time, I talked to another woman, /{C and } she was so happy to know because she lived through Vietnam. /{C And } she didn't know what was happening at that time. /
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Right. /
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{C And } she was so happy to get the information, {D you know. } /{C So } there's just a lot of different opinions on that. /{C But, } -/
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[ [ I, + I, ] + {D you know, } I ] like [ to, + to ] know what's going on. /Sometimes I think there's just a little bit too much. /
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Yeah. /
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{D You know } you get in the habit of, like I say, turn on Headline News /{C and } it will play over and over
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{C and } you just tune it out because it's the same thing /{C but, } -/
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{C And then, } too, a lot of times I think, {F uh, } especially on television they blow things completely out of proportion. /
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Yeah, /they tend to,
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# {D Like, } # -/
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# dramatize # things. /
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{D You know, } {D like } this Kennedy thing. /
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Yeah. /
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# {D Like } who cares? /# Really. /
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{D So, } -/
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{D Well, } -/
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{C But } what are you doing? /Sitting on a computer? /
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Yeah. /
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Trying to do some C programming. /
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{F Oh, } okay. /{D Well, } it was nice talking to you. /
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Okay
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Okay. /
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Take # care. # /
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# Take # care. /
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Bye-bye. /