The person I decided to interview was Raine Thomason, she is my mother. She also watches the News every morning while having her coffee. While interviewing her I discovered that she usually listens to News 12 while she plays Candy Crush on her cell phone, so yes she was multitasking while watching the News. She did not remember the lead story however she did remember some stories. One of the stories she remembered was the lady who is fighting with a rescue organization about getting her dog back. Her pug escaped nine days ago and one of the neighbors called a rescue organization who wound up picking up the dog. When the lady called the rescue to get her dog back they would not tell her where he was. There's more then two organization's involved. She also explained to me that one of the only reasons she really remembers this story is because it reminds her of something similar one of her old neighbors went through a few years back. Specific things trigger memories which make people not forget about these stories. Another story that she remembered was about all of the serious flooding and landslides in China. Raine explained that she really watches the stories about the weather around the world because she is afraid to see whats coming for us after Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy ruined her house and she is terrified of that ever happening again. One more story she remembered was about the school cameras being reactivated, she really remembered this one because she doesn’t want anybody getting tickets, especially speeding tickets. She told me that she is very satisfied with the News, she usually only watches News 12 because she likes it the best. She likes it the best because it gives us all of the major news on the island as well as the major national news around the world. She can name a couple of the news anchors and they are Elizabeth Hashagen, Rich Hoffman, and Danielle Campbell. Those are the only ones she really knows. Nothing really else stood out to her. After watching a block of each news channels news, I discovered that the lead story today was about Obama sending more troops to Iraq. I don’t sense bias in all of the news stations, however some of the news stations add their opinions
