team and find out, you know, why is it not working for these folks and can we adjust to, can we take tweedie, can we make it more aggressive. this is a very difficult process. and what i've got to do is make sure that we are focused both on the short term, how can we provide families immediate relief, and jumpstart the economy as quickly as possible. and i got to keep my eye on the long term. and the long term is making sure that my reform our health care system, bypassing serious energy legislation that made us a clean energy economy, by revamping our education system, by finally getting the financial regulatory reforms in place that are necessary for the 21st century, by doing all those things we have got a foundation for long term economic growth. and we don't end up having to juice up the economy artificially through the kinds of bubble strategies that help to get us in a situation that we're in today. i've got time for two more questions. april? >> how are you doing? back on the economy. mr. president, people are criticizing this recovery plan. they were quoted in the washington post th

our guest is richard sarnoff of the tweedie company bertelsmann inc.. >> host: this week on the communicators, richard sarnoff who is co-chairman of bertelsmann and president of bertelsmann digital media investment. joining in the questioning, greg piper of washington internet daily. mr. senate if you could start off by giving us a brief snapshot of the bertelsmann companies. >> guest: the bertelsmann is the major media company based in germany. our key divisions are in television, broadcast television and television production. we are the largest broadcaster in europe with brands like rto, channel 5 in great britain. we are very active in magazine field. we are the largest magazine publisher in europe as well. brand, the umbrella brand. we have a theory and large services company, which provides all kinds of media services from the reproductions of ddp's all the way to printing of books, to electronic payment services for google and microsoft and others. and then, last but not least in the weslia business such as random house, which is the world's largest consumer book publisher based here i