B
It's a lot of money.
A
Yeah, it is. And, yeah, you have to stay up on stuff, and I bet in your, your job that you have to, do you read the WALL STREET JOURNAL?
B
No, well, no, I, I, I primarily deal with the state employees, but I, I find interesting tidbits in what the news reports as far as the, like the state of North Carolina's budget, and stuff like that. And I really know what the budget is, and, and, uh, uh, when they were saying we were so poor and they couldn't pay taxes, and pay people their income tax refunds and things like that, and, you know, I'm well aware of the billions of assets that the state has, and it, it's just funny. You know, so that's, that's, that's, so I don't have a whole lot of faith in, in, you know, the news. Course it's, they, they get what they hear from, but, you know, it's not always I, I think one hundred percent reliable.
A
Can you think of anything that could be done to make our news media more accurate and objective?
B
I think they need to do a little bit, go into a little bit more depth, uh, before they would just report, like somebody wants to make a statement or something like that, because I mean, another example is the, uh, AIDS issue or whatever. You know, someone said, Oh, I found a cure. They immediately, the headlines on the news or whatever is, Someone says they found a cure for AIDS. And then two months later it's discovered it's not, you know, before they, before they come out with something like that they need to, to research the matter, I believe, a little bit more.
A
I guess they do that so they don't get scooped, you know, so they have the big story.