uh you keep up with current events um somewhat yeah not not as well as i would like to probably but that's the way it goes somewhat is that right yeah where where abouts in Pennsylvania what where in Pennsylvania um State College i go to Penn State oh do you well great yep 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 right exactly uh 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 i see well what particularly are you interested in 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 um-hum 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 um-hum but uh other than that uh i just you know just the events that happen around the world interest me and yeah 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 i see but i always have been um-hum 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 um uh well some of both i TV news or what um-hum read i read the newspapers sometimes and i watch CNN and that sort of thing occasionally and i uh-huh well that's yeah that's good because read magazines and such uh-huh well you stay up with it pretty well then well yeah i mean not not that badly anyway so i am i am interested in what's going on uh-huh yeah uh-huh and i'm particularly interested in certain things of course like all the news about Haiti recently because i've been down there uh-huh yes uh-huh oh you've been there well you would be interested in it then and yeah right exactly 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 yep and uh because it is it's interesting um-hum 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 that's true they've never really had a good leader uh-huh um-hum and it i think it's been better since he died but it's still been bad yeah 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 oh yeah yeah he was pretty pretty much a he didn't mind having people bumped off for certain things you know um-hum but uh i see that's one one of the reasons US wasn't so you know didn't do more than they did at the time um-hum 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 yeah so what do you think about the quality of news coverage in America and and not that i think it's pretty darned good i think we're lucky to have as good a coverage as we have um-hum 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 right 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 yep but i think the quality of our uh our news is just uh i don't believe it could be better 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 i really don't i don't think so i don't think our news could be better oh yeah i i mean i mean what else could they do to make it better um i don't see anything that they could do yeah it well i think that um i don't know well you always wanna think everything can be improved upon i i really i understand what you're saying the uh right right i think that but by trial and error over the years i think they got it about as good as they gonna get it 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 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 right um-hum right