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B: Yeah.
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B: I, I think I'd agree.
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B: A, a similar method of getting the news with me too.
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B: It's, uh, uh, C N N has been a welcome addition to the T V scene here in the, last, uh, number of years.
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B: Uh, prior to cable, you know, you didn't get much news off of normal, uh, television broadcasts.
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A: Right.
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B: Uh, just usually pretty local in, in nature
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B: and, and I like, uh, C N N because you get some world, world events too uh, which is not too common on, on the other format, newspapers, and so forth.
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A: Uh-huh.
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A: Right.
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A: Yeah.
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A: I know, the,
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A: my only major objection is that, uh, I don't think American media spends enough, uh, attention on, on our closest neighbors like Mexico and Canada.
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A: Uh,
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B: That, that's true, you know.
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B: You hardly ever see, uh, headline articles about the, uh, either the economics or, or other news events going on in either of those countries.
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A: Uh-huh.
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A: Yeah.
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B: Uh, whereas if you pick up a, a European paper, you know, uh, it, all the surrounding countries, Soviet Union, and everything has, uh, major news, uh, articles in them.
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A: Right.
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A: Yeah.
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A: I mean, you know, Canada has gone through a lot of problems now with, with Quebec and, and everything
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A: and, uh, it's amazing that,
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A: you know, I, I listen to D C area and the WASHINGTON POST, you know,
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A: I mean the most they'll give it is the back of the A section.
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B: Yeah.
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A: Uh, you know.
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B: I'm, I'm currently living in Dallas
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B: and it, it won't even give it the back section <laughter>.
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B: You just, never see, you just never see anything about it,
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B: uh, which is a shame because you go to other countries, uh,
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B: and, and they carry quite a bit about the U S on the other hand.
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B: And if you go up to, uh, Canada, those people are usually pretty, uh, familiar with the politics going on and and the news U S
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: and we're pretty, uh, limited in our understanding of, of leaders up in Canada or Mexico.
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A: Yeah,
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A: definitely.
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B: You just don't know what's going on.
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A: Yeah.
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B: I'd, I,
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B: every once in awhile, I have to travel overseas
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B: and lately I've taken the, taken a little shortwave radio, uh, around and picking up the B B C
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B: and it's sort of like, uh, a C N N too.
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B: You you can tune into some stations
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: and you get some, like thirty minute summaries of, of news events.
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B: Uh, I occasionally get into some of the middle eastern, uh, area
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B: and that's the only way you can tell what's going on at all <laughter>.
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B: There's not much in the way of television in some of those places.
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A: Right.
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B: Uh, but that's a good point about, about the neighboring countries.
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B: I hadn't really thought about it
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B: but I guess you don't think about it cause you don't hear it.
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A: Right.
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A: Exactly.
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A: Yeah.
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A: I, uh, spent this past summer up in Canada.
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A: Uh, well part of it, touring.
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A: And, uh, you know, I was amazed cause I'd pick up a local paper and I'd read about all of these, you know, really interesting things going on.
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A: There's some serious talk about whether there's actually going to be a, a Canada, you know, in the next five years.
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You know, because of the problems with Quebec
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B: Yeah.
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A: and I had never heard any of that before.
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B: Yeah,
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B: you know, there was, a, a,
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B: what is it called,
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B: is it Meech Lake Accord?
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: Or, or, that's just something, uh, I'd say ninety percent of the people here would never have heard of
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B: and I think that I heard of it about the first time when I was up in Calgary a couple of years ago and, you know, picked up a, a paper and started reading a little bit more detail about it.
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B: And, and came
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B: it was a big thing going on there
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B: and I came back here
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B: and nothing in the papers.
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A: Right,
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A: right.
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B: I didn't see a thing about it.
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B: So it's, uh, we've got a long ways to go, I guess.
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B: It's improved.
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B: And like I say, with C N N and, and, uh, the cable news.
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B: Even, even there's, uh, uh,
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B: it's it's semireligious in some respects.
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B: But what is it?
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B: It's, uh, I mean it's news is not, not that way,
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B: uh, oh, I'm trying to think of the channel.
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B: The, the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR.
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A: Oh, yeah.
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B: Uh, I, it surprised me.
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B: I've caught it a few times
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B: and they, they do some pretty good news.
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B: Uh, seemingly unbiased news broadcasts.
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B: Uh uh, the, the title of the network is sort of surprising.
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: You'd think it would carry mostly religious
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B: but it, it doesn't seem to.
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B: So I'll flip through and listen to it once in awhile too, uh, and catch something maybe a little different than, than C N N might be covering.
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B: Uh, some more interest type topics in, in other countries.
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B: But it's kind of world, world, uh, network too.
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A: Yeah.
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A: Uh, I, I guess I've never seen the T V show.
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