[speaker001:] Well, you keep up with current events?
[speaker002:] Um, somewhat. Yeah, somewhat
[speaker001:] Not,
[speaker002:] not as well as I would like to probably
[speaker001:] Is that right?
[speaker002:] but that's the way it goes.
[speaker001:] Yeah, where, whereabouts 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.
[speaker002:] Right, exactly, uh.
[speaker001:] Well, I'm a current event junkie. So I, I watch, I try to watch the news, and I read the newspaper, and I like to read TIME magazine and PEOPLE magazine to keep up with what's going on in the world.
[speaker002:] I see.
[speaker001:] .
[speaker002:] Well, what particularly are you interested in?
[speaker001:] Well, I just, pretty, uh, little, you know, about everything. And, not
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and then again not everything, but you know, I like to know pretty well what's happening. 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:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but, uh, other than that, uh, I just, you know, just the events that happen around the world interest me.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Stay in touch with it and know, feel like I know what's going on. Now I have to say all three of my children, [LAUGHTER] none of them are too interested in current events.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I see.
[speaker001:] But I always have been
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[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
[speaker001:] T V news, or what?
[speaker002:] uh, well, some of both.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I read, I read the newspapers sometimes
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and I watch C N N, that sort of thing
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] occasionally
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's good.
[speaker002:] and I read magazines, and such.
[speaker001:] Well, you stay up with it pretty well, then.
[speaker002:] Well, yeah, I mean, not, not that badly
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] anyway, so I am, I am interested in what's going on, and I'm particularly interested in certain things of course, like all the news about Haiti recently
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, yes, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] because I've been down there
[speaker001:] Oh, you've been there
[speaker002:] and, yeah.
[speaker001:] well, you would be interested in it then.
[speaker002:] Right, exactly.
[speaker001:] Yeah, uh, I follow it, you know, I don't just read everything about it, but I'm always aware of what's going on like that
[speaker002:] Yep,
[speaker001:] and, uh, because it is, it's interesting
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, 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.
[speaker002:] That's true.
[speaker001:] I mean,
[speaker002:] They've never really had a good leader,
[speaker001:] through Papa Doc, I mean he was
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] a terrible tyrant
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and 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'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:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But, uh,
[speaker002:] I see.
[speaker001:] It's, one of the reasons the U S wasn't so, you know, didn't do more than they did at the time
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[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, you know, those people are 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?
[speaker001:] I think it's pretty darned good, I think we're lucky to have as good a coverage as we have
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I really do. Now, I, 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, of course if you watch it more, 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
[speaker002:] Right, right.
[speaker001:] so I, you hear 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:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I really don't.
[speaker002:] Yeah, well, you know, I think it probably could be, it always could be better, but I,
[speaker001:] I don't think so.
[speaker002:] would agree that it's pretty good.
[speaker001:] I don't think our news could be better.
[speaker002:] 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, well, I think that, um, I don't know.
[speaker001:] Well, you always
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] The, um,
[speaker001:] want to think everything can be improved upon
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] I understand what you're saying,
[speaker002:] Right, I think that,
[speaker001:] But by trial and error over the years, I think they got it about as good as they're going to get it.
[speaker002:] Well, that may be so, yeah.
[speaker001:] Uh
[speaker002:] I think that
[speaker001:] nothing is perfect.
[speaker002:] I'm not always satisfied with how dig they deep into the
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] how deep they dig into things and such.
[speaker001:] Well, 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 C N N.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] C N N has the time, since that's all they do is news
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] to dig deeper.
[speaker002:] Right.