[speaker001:] uh you keep up with current events
[speaker002:] um somewhat yeah not not as well as I would like to probably but that's the way it goes
[speaker001:] somewhat is that right yeah where where abouts in Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] what
[speaker001:] where in Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] um State College I go to Penn State
[speaker001:] oh do you well great
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] how's uh well no we're not supposed to talk about that we're supposed to talk about current events well I'm a current event junkie so I
[speaker002:] right exactly uh
[speaker001:] I watch I try to watch the news and I read the newspaper and I like to read Time magazine People magazine keep up what's going on in the world
[speaker002:] I see well what particularly are you interested in
[speaker001:] but well I just pretty uh a little you know about everything and not and then again not everything but you know I like to know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] pretty well what's happening so political things don't interest me a great deal except I do like to stay informed enough to feel like I halfway vote intelligently you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh other than that uh I just you know just the events that happen around the world interest me and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and stay in touch with it know feel like I know what's going on now I have to say all three of my children none of them are too interested in current events
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] but I always have been
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I stay up with it but uh how do you how do you uh stay aware of most of the current events uh newspaper
[speaker002:] um uh well some of both I
[speaker001:] TV news or what um-hum
[speaker002:] read I read the newspapers sometimes and I watch CNN and that sort of thing occasionally and I
[speaker001:] uh-huh well that's yeah that's good because
[speaker002:] read magazines and such
[speaker001:] uh-huh well you stay up with it pretty well then
[speaker002:] well yeah I mean not not that badly anyway so I am I am interested in what's going on
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I'm particularly interested in certain things of course like all the news about Haiti recently because I've been down there
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes uh-huh oh you've been there well you would be interested in it then
[speaker002:] and yeah right exactly
[speaker001:] yeah uh I I follow it you know I don't just read everything about but I I'm always aware of what's going on like that
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] and uh because it is it's interesting
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I I don't know I feel sorry for those people down there they've just been so terribly mistreated for so many many years you know I mean through Papa Doc I mean he was a terrible tyrant
[speaker002:] that's true they've never really had a good leader uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] and it I think it's been better since he died but it's still been bad
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh even that priest that was in control there for a while that they overthrew uh I I've read some things about him that he was he wasn't too good himself
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] yeah he was pretty pretty much a he didn't mind having people bumped off for certain things you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] that's one one of the reasons US wasn't so you know didn't do more than they did at the time
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] because they weren't all that excited about him although he's probably better than a lot of them but uh but then again who know you know they're so super so used to it I guess it's the only thing that works
[speaker002:] yeah so what do you think about the quality of news coverage in America and
[speaker001:] and not that I think it's pretty darned good I think we're lucky to have as good a coverage as we have
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I really do now I uh they sometimes they jump on it and and and go a little to the extreme the media does but uh but that's kind of understandable because you know it of course if you watch it more than more than once a day I mean it's the same thing over and over and over and over and I listen to the radio watch
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so I you hear it so much you get a little tired of it but then again so many people you got to understand only catch it once a day maybe
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] but I think the quality of our uh our news is just uh I don't believe it could be better
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah well you know I think it probably could be it always could be better but I'd agree that it's pretty good
[speaker001:] I really don't I don't think so I don't think our news could be better
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] I I mean I mean what else could they do to make it better
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] I don't see anything that they could do
[speaker002:] yeah it well I think that um I don't know
[speaker001:] well you always wanna think everything can be improved upon I I really I understand what you're saying
[speaker002:] the uh right right I think that
[speaker001:] but by trial and error over the years I think they got it about as good as they gonna get it
[speaker002:] well that may be so yeah uh I think that I'm not always satisfied with how dig they deep into things how deep they dig into the things and such
[speaker001:] uh nothing is perfect but yeah uh-huh well that's uh that's true I understand what you're saying and then again I understand why they can't dig too much deeper that's why we have CNN you know CNN has the time since that's all they do is news to dig deeper
[speaker002:] right um-hum right