Keeping up with Current Events. Macon's post about the Dennis Miller interview made me think about where I am getting my "news" these days.

I have all but given up listening to NPR. (I continue to listen to the Diane Rehm show, when I can. And I listen to Tavis Smiley too.) During the last Presidential election, I gave up reading the New York Times, but will go to its website when I see an article from the NY Times cited or linked somewhere else. I have given up reading the Miami Herald, except for a glance at the headlines. I now read the Wall Street Journal, World Magazine (which often tries my patience), Google News, the Miami Business Review, and, of course, the various blogs, including Sean's, Macon's, InstaPundit, and Opinion Journal. I also read First Things. I get emails from Christianity Today magazine that take me to its site and from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity to its site. I like to read these magazines too: QST, CQ, Nuts and Volts, Home Power.

We don't have cable or satellite, so our TV menu consists of the local stations and their networks. We never watch network news, however. We once watched the McLaughlin Group consistently, but it has become a broken record of left-wing liberalism, aided and abetted by two isolationist Republicans, McLaughlin and Buchanan, in large part. I don't mind hearing other views and they often make me think further about an issue and sometimes change my mind, but I know exactly what everyone is going to say on that show on any given news event before the show even begins.