The Red Brick Times

I've never considered myself a "news junkie". To me that term implies someone who's constantly tuned into news channels. Y'know, CNN and such. But that takes cable TV, something I gave up a long time ago. And CNN? Well, let's just say that from what I read it ain't what it used to be.

I do pay attention to news though. In the evening I eat my dinner at 6:00pm while watching the local news, have dessert to the half hour national news, then pick up the PBS News Hour out of Akron which runs from 7:00 to 8:00pm here. After that it's a library DVD or book.

My morning starts off with the local newspaper and, on Wednesdays and Sundays, the Plain Dealer, both of which I read cover to cover. Then I hit the NY Times website. From there, time allowing, I'd hit the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor sites. Whew! Sounds like a lot but I got good at finding what I thought important so it didn't really take that long. Over the last month or two my mornings have changed a bit. After the NY Times I now hit the Huffington Post, an on line news resource that's starting to become the most relevant thing I browse each day. Good reporting, good columnists.

What I especially learned from there today:
Shameless: Bush's Bogus History Lesson,
Fox Attacks: Iran, and
NY Times: Republicans Will Use "Elaborate Dirty Trick" to Steal White House.
Give it a try!
Posted 8:49 AM by whatley (2) comments

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P.S. Other good news sites:
The BBC
and, dare I say(?)
Aljazeera

Funny thing. The first time I tried to view the Aljazeera site it took a VERY long time to connect. Paranoid? Me? Yeah, maybe.

# posted by  whatley : August 24, 2007 9:38 AM
 
P.P.S. A cool quote I read somewhere (and I'm paraphrasing): "The US media covers the missile taking off, Aljazeera covers where it lands."

# posted by  whatley : August 24, 2007 9:49 AM
 
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