On the Internet, I get general information from Yahoo.news and heads-ups from Drudge. I then track the news I'm interested in down to as close to the original sources as I can. The Internet is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It's like living in the Library of Congress.

I do listen to my local talk radio station. There is hourly news, and hot stuff will be there, but I listen to talk radio for viewpoints, not the news. There's a news station for that. I do get lots of references to other news stories on talk radio, which I look up on my own. The good hosts have web sites with links to references.

Talk radio is superb at pointing out the stuff that the mainstream media pointedly ignores. Do a search on Yahoo News, (which covers AP, Reuters, the New York Times, and others) and the term "Patty Murray" brings up her name currently only in connection with a visa problem for a Seattle opera singer. See how it goes?

I will flip into Fox on TV once in a while, or CNN, but generally ignore whatever talking head is up there and look at the crawl for a few minutes. If anything hot is happening, it'll be there. If something really hot is happening, it's on all the news channels live, and I stick pretty close to the TV. One has to be careful though, since the newsmen tend to jump to conclusions in a crisis.

Haven't seen network news in years.

I also get the local morning paper, which I flip through.