[speaker001:] hi so do you think you get good coverage from the sources that you have
[speaker002:] uh actually no because because I'm in school I I kind of miss out on most of the current events I just catch the major ones off the news or if someone starts to talk about it
[speaker001:] do you watch a lot of TV to get the news then
[speaker002:] uh I I don't watch a lot of it but that's the only basically that's my only major source of information
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] what about what about you
[speaker001:] well I read um I get a bunch of different things I get a newspaper every day and I try to at at least have a few minutes to look through that and I look through uh I get a Newsweek every week which I I pretty much read that cover to cover and I as far as you know that satisfies most of the short term news I get uh don't watch much TV don't have enough time and uh don't listen to the radio too much especially the news channels or anything like that you know they might give you a little blurbs like this happened or that happened and that's about all I ever hear of it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh but most of my news probably comes from Newsweek and for the longer term I I read um like Scientific American and and uh Reader's Digest and some of those other types of magazines
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] that come out which they the news isn't like immediate what you'd generally think of as news but it's recent material
[speaker002:] and it's more in depth
[speaker001:] yeah it's it's more in depth less broad well actually it's probably isn't less broad but it's just more in depth and uh it's it's more significant it's more just significant information you know it's the big events not the little events
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] not the fact that there was a big auto accident down at the corner of Broad and Main you know
[speaker002:] I know it when they're just trying to fill in
[speaker001:] yes or they're making making time because they have to fill in an hour's worth of news
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um I get kind of bored watching TV actually when I watch the news on TV because
[speaker002:] I know I do I do too
[speaker001:] it goes so slow and then there's nothing that you know really is like oh so exciting
[speaker002:] yeah you may find one little uh news item interesting so you have to wait twenty minutes to to hear about it
[speaker001:] yeah that that's about what it ends up being listen to the news to hear the traffic report or something
[speaker002:] yeah actually you you mention Newsweek I I I do like uh US News and World Report I don't get to read it as much as I like but that's I think that's a good magazine
[speaker001:] yeah I think they're about the same I you know they they certainly have a very similar uh charter at least in my mind
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh uh what what kind of um what kind of news normally interests you I mean what do you what what do you find interesting versus what do you find boring
[speaker002:] oh well right now I'm trying to keep abreast of uh what's going on in Europe you know with all the uh USSR's satellites breaking off and trying to become independent and then you know European community coming together
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that's gonna affect our uh economy quite a bit
[speaker001:] I think it will um they they keep claiming it's going to have a big influence but we've yet to see it it's real short term yet though I mean it's only been three months or something like that since that happened so
[speaker002:] oh yeah definitely yeah
[speaker001:] but they like to tell us that it's going to be important
[speaker002:] I'm I'm pretty sure it is because uh
[speaker001:] I think it is too
[speaker002:] once once Europe becomes unified and uh their economy becomes one big economy we're gonna be uh kind of hurting
[speaker001:] yeah I I think that's a possibility um it we might also be helped though because it it'll be easier to do business over there too
[speaker002:] yeah definitely
[speaker001:] for the companies that already have a presence over there and uh I know of at least one company that specifically went over there and established a presence before nineteen ninety two so that they would have it when it came time
[speaker002:] oh yeah so they have a toehold a good toehold
[speaker001:] yep because once you're in there then you can easily expand but getting in after nineteen ninety two is more difficult
[speaker002:] yeah because when they first start off they're going to be highly protectionist so
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and there's already a lot of evidence that they are being very protectionist even amongst themselves they're being somewhat protectionist you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] like England doesn't want to do one thing and and Sweden doesn't want to do other thing and they're they've all got their own reasons which have to be resolved yet
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and some of it I mean is I'm sure within those people's minds it's quite justified
[speaker002:] yeah I I can understand their viewpoint they're just they're starting off and their economy's a little bit weak so they want to get established before they
[speaker001:] um-hum before they open up their borders to everyone
[speaker002:] compete yeah totally
[speaker001:] um what is the um do you watch anything like with sports or anything like that
[speaker002:] actually I'm not really into sports my roommates are so unfortunately I am forced to watch quite a bit of sports
[speaker001:] against your will
[speaker002:] yeah we have to fight over the remote control
[speaker001:] yeah at least you guys have a remote control it's sometimes better to not have one of those course you can always mislocate it or misplace it I mean not mislocate it but misplace it and