The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US). I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally mor

The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US). I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally more of the NYTimes for background if I find I'm missing it. I listen to the New Yorker (Audible.com offers it as a for-pay podcast). I Tivo the McLaughlin group every week and occasionally even watch it when I have a hankering for talking heads. I used to read the NYTimes religiously, but I've become convinced that the idea of regular news consumption in non-varying amounts is poison b/c of the way it elevates the importance of trivial events that happen on slow news days (see any local TV newscast in the US for the extreme version of this). I think the Economist is somewhat immune to this effect because of its international focus. NPR survives this effect pretty well because it has enough arts/humanities-oriented material to round out slow news days.