the moment I log on to my computer, BBC headlines start to scroll at the top of my screen. Breaking news alerts will pop up if anything happen over the last few hours I need to check in case the world was destroyed while I slept. then depending on how I feel about needing constant chatter, I have tweetdeck and twitterfox to keep up with friends and the several newspapers and reporters and a freelance cameraman, I know through my friends.

Then when I'm awake enough to deal with my eail, I get headlines from the NY Times and the Washington Post as well as briefs from Huffington and Politico. As I short through my emeail I'll open tabs for any headline that grabs my attention, stopping to read those that seem to be major news at the moment.

I'm less likely to turn on the TV News unless bored or find some news draws enough of my interest that I may turn on cable news (never Fox though) I like watching MSNBC in the evening during the election coverage to hear talking heads go at each other, but with a S.O. that wasn't in to politics, often the channel would get change to TCM or AMC, so it was back to my computer for me.

As to local news, I find the coverage so poorly done that if anything is worth my time, I'll likely hear about it from non local news coverage. The Baltimore Sun has been whittled down to point that recently I found it barely gives me something to read that wasn't printed in the Times or Post that day.

I'm a news junkie, who was raised on having to sit quietly during the news and getting the Sunday New York times after church. We lived just outside Washington D.C. when I got interested in reading more then just the comics and still remember reading the small story on the Watergate Burglary and talking to my mom about how suspicious it seem to the two of us. Each day after we would check for updates and soon my mom was talking about impeachment. The Hearings were the drug that had me addicted. My oldest daughter was addicted when we stayed with my mom and she watch C-Span every morning. I do OD sometimes and will go a few days avoiding all news to recover, but soon find myself needing a fix and back to checking the headlines first thing in the morning.

Like you, I feel it's up to each of us to bring change by looking at how our actions affect the world around us. Otherwise we will waste this chance to repair the damage that years of selflessness has done create the problems we now face.