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Bill Maher (love him) and John Stewart (love him more) are terrific places to get your news!

Hmm... Well, everyone here knows I am a round-the-clock NPR listener, so there's that (in the car, getting ready for work, on the weekends, etc). Then I watch The Newshour with Jim Lehrer every night if I can on PBS. I also surf various web sites, usually the Washington Post (I esp. love the chats they have on washingtonpost.com with various editors, experts, and guests - good stuff). NYT has pissed me of ever since they started charging for their editorials, which is the main reason I read the NYT site, but I still get their daily email and read their stories occasionally. I occasionally watch CNN, FOX, MSNBC, but all with great skepticism (especially Fox, which is essentially entertainment. The other two are just corporate and gutless). I am somewhat fanatical about the Sunday morning talk shows, esp. Meet the Press, and if I miss them in the a.m., I listen to them on C-SPAN radio... Not a lot of people realize that C-SPAN radio rebroadcasts the big Sunday shows, and it's great if you're driving around midday.

I also like political blogs, particularly wonkette b/c I think it's hilarious and so many bloggers take themselves way too seriously.

I had to stop my Economist subscription because it was getting away from me and now only buy it in airports. But I read the New Yorker religiously. And I check out back issues of Time, US News, and Newsweek when visiting my parents' b/c Daddy saves them up for me.

Also, a girl needs her Us Weekly. I mean, come on. I find it somewhat more plausible than cable news.

I am sort of a news/media junkie. It just really interests me.

I love Jon Stewart but I don't catch him that often.

In Canada we have two "national" newspapers, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. I get both of them almost every day but most of the time I read the arts section and skim the real news. But every few days I read all the gory details. And I listen to CBC radio every day. This is the Canadian NPR. I love it. They have been going on strike with alarming frequency in the past decade though. They just came back from a 12 week lock out. While the work stoppages are on they either play classical or rebroadcast documentaries. This is fine for catching up but I need the current stuff!!

I have a friend who claims to be very "busy" at work but he always seems to be able to cull the news sites for bits that I would be interested in. He does this for all his friends. It is a great service!!!



-- Edited by sage at 19:27, 2005-11-04

I read the local section of the newspaper (whichever one a coworker has brought into work) but not the world section.  I am really out of the loop when it comes to current events, so if I have a question on something, I just ask my BF.  He knows all about that kind of stuff and always gives me an objective view as well as his own opinion. 

NPR, Air America Radio (love Al Franken and Jerry Springer on the Radio), Today Show on NBC because I love Katie Couric, Dallas Morning News (often the "Quick" version because it's free and I just read headlines for this kind of news anyway), CNN, MSNBC, ABC World News Tonight (usually because I am still on the channel anyway from watching Oprah) and sometimes Nightline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  I love all the investigative reporting shows like Dateline, 20/20, Primetime, 60 minutes....etc.

I consider my the variety of my news sources to be pretty vanilla.  I will probably step it up when the next presidential election is closer to try to get a better world view.

I'm SUPER bad about keeping up with the news.  I generally know what's going on, but don't know the details to a lot of stories, which is actually probably okay.

In the morning as I'm getting ready for work I'll either have the Today show on (although Matt Lauer REALLY gets on my nerves, so usually I'll just turn it on to see what Katie Couric's wearing and to catch the headlines) or I'll have NPR on.  I have my Internet Explorer's homepage set to NYT, so I at least look at the headlines.  And I always scan the headlines when I check my Yahoo! e-mail, and I love reading the funny stories that they put in there, like recently a woman that had like 16 kids.

I do political research for a living, so I keep up to date with political trends by reading the National Journal (which I love!)  We don't have cable, so I don't get to watch Jon Stewart or CNN, MSN, etc.  I like Tim Russert too, but I rarely am watching tv at that time on Sunday morning.

I watch my local news (if you can call it "news"...more like cleverly disguised advertising) every morning, and one of the evening/world news shows whenever I can.  During the day, I read wire news through Yahoo (which I like, because it has news from all 3 major wire services, plus editorials, etc). I am not a huge fan of our daily paper here (even though, or maybe because, I used to work for it) so I rarely read it.

Since I teach journalism, I also try to have current events discussions with my students at least once a week (we get free classroom sets of the local paper on Mondays & Fridays), and I give current-event quizzes, so I obviously have to write those. When we finish a class activity early, we watch CNN to fill the extra time, too.

NPR is the only station i listen to in the car (i'm an NPR junkie) so i catch bits of news here and there everyday. we also get the NY Times on sundays, and like carmenb513, it takes me all week to read through it.

My boyfriend is a bit of political scientist so he is always scanning the news. (Online of course) Sometimes I get informed from him, sometimes I check sites trying to keep up with him. For a mainstream news source I almost exclusively use BBC. I find it covers things based on severity and importance instead of based on where in the world they occured. Online I really like informationclearinghouse.info.