Cool, your name is in the very first sentence! I bet the photo's in the print edition. LMK, cuz I'll make a trip to Borders to check it out if you're in there!
To answer your question: I still have GMA on in the morning. I don't sit and watch it, per se, but it's on while I go about my morning routine. I like Diane Sawyer and I *love* Chris Cuomo.

I don't really sit down and watch, but I have Fox & Friends First and then the Today show on while I'm getting ready in the morning. I like to have a general idea of the headlines. I've given up the evening news in favor of one flavor of Law & Order or another.

Only "The Daily Show". Everything else is too depressing. I can get my news in short form on the CNN RSS feed. If I need to know more about a story, I click through.

Awesome article. I agree with what you and Jenn say whole-heartedly. My time is too valuable to get sucked into the whole "stay tuned to see what we will tease you with in the upcoming hour."

I *hate* live TV now. I also don't see how it makes me a better person to know about all the death, violence and horrible injustice in the world on a daily basis.

watching "outfoxed" has turned me very cynical towards the media.

That said, I will probably begin watching the evening news again (but probably pbs so it isn't so sensational) when the primaries get closer. I like seeing the speeches, I like watching the fanfare. And I am greatly looking forward to GWB being long gone. you know, that might be enough to make me want to watch the news again.

I absolutely abhor morning TV, which isn't news anyhow. It's fluff and it's bad fluff. I don't watch the evening news either but I do watch PBS news occasionally. Mostly I listen to NPR news during the day, watch the local news at noon, and then watch the VERY VERY late news on ABC from 3-4 am. Really. I love that news show. It's funny, it's relevant, it's so not filled with gloom and doom, and it covers pretty much everything I want to know.

As for getting my news, I get most of my local news via several local aggregate blogs, my two town blogs, and the Boston Globe online. I also read the NYTimes online, and various other papers from around the world. I read several Israeli news blogs, 2 British news blogs, and one Dutch news blog. Most of the blogs I read are news oriented these days.

I may still read crap online but at least I choose the crap and the air-time it gets on my screen. I've switched almost exclusively to online news sources. I watch the TV news when there's a 'big story' that really affects me or when I'm too tired to open my eyes and read and I want to take my news lying down.

Jenny, I just emailed you to tell you how much I enjoyed the article -- AND the photo! If you have trouble finding a paper edition over there, let me know and I'll send you mine.

I haven't watched morning TV (or any other TV) for years, but I wouldn't miss reading my blogroll for ANYTHING. I once rented a laptop in a motel so I could keep current.

Way to go! You're in the PAPER!

Um, I don't actually read the paper on paper any more, either. But I read the paper on my monitor.

The only time I watch the morning news is if I'm working out at the gym at that time. And then it's The Today Show. I never watch the local news - I get it all online. Besides being more efficient with my time, I find that the local news is not really appropriate to have on with young children in the house. If I'm travelling and in a hotel I may watch a little MSNBC here and there.

OK, that is so totally cool. You were beautifully quoted

Somewhat coincidentally, I was quoted in the LA Times last year: typically geeky stuff, and nowhere near as much fun as your topic. The article is no longer on the paper's web site, but it was cross-posted to a whole whack of other papers as well:

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/08/20/100bus_batteries001.cfm

What a rush! I'm thrilled for you.
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I think so-called traditional media are in trouble. They have kept their heads in the sand for so long vis-a-vis the arrival of new media on the scene that they're behind the 8-ball now that our eyeballs are increasingly looking elsewhere.

Either they adapt to this new world, or they'll die. Simple as that.

Way to go!!!

I tend to prefer blogs and online news, but I must admit to a bit of an addiction to CNN--though there are only so many times you can watch Anderson Cooper talking about New Orleans or the war. And that's not to say that I don't consider them important issues--it's just that there doesn't seem to be anything new about the news.

What a beautiful picture! You look great, so do the kids, and it seems to capture the warmth, humour and love of your family life. That's a keeper.
I have never watched morning TV shows, and I don't like to watch any news programs with the kids around. I don't want them to see the deaths, the crime stories, the war, nor most of the commercials either. I often hide the front page of the paper if the headlines or photos are potentially upsetting. (Our triplets are 6 years old, and reading now.)

What a great picture!