But it really doesn't take much to stay up to speed. I'm with kashuntstva; I stopped actively consuming the news a year or two back, and I find I'm not tangibly

But it really doesn't take much to stay up to speed. I'm with kashuntstva; I stopped actively consuming the news a year or two back, and I find I'm not tangibly less informed than the people I know who leave CNN turned on all day. I somehow seem to absorb everything that actually matters from the atmosphere. The only thing I really miss out on is the sensationalism, the overanalysis from people who've made a career of running their mouths, and the inaccuracies and wild speculation that inevitably comes from reporters trapped in a 24 hour hamster wheel being under constant pressure to hurry up and tell the story before they've even had a chance to piece it together.