I think it would be safe to say that I am a bonafide news junkie, and it would also be safe to say that I used to sit, glued to my chair staring without blinking at CNN whenever something momentous was happening. Now that TV news has uniformly transformed into this stew of talking heads, I sit, pained, through each agonizing hour hoping to catch a single news story worthy of the name from any source that I may trip over. The complete dissolution of the CNN news service on a journalistic basis causes me personal anguish each time I so much as pass by the channel while browsing for something worth watching.
So I bring to you, with constrained enthusiasm, a link to a news source of at least moderate value as an amalgam of stories from around the world that seem to be mostly devoid of talking heads:
http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/programs/editorial_0542.shtm
This is a site provided by the Department of Homeland Security that directly references the source of each article it summarizes, so you can both get more details on a story you’re interested in and also validate where the information comes from.
The articles are updated daily and there is a 10-day archive that you can browse through so you don’t miss anything important.
And most importantly of all, there are no talking heads to assault your senses and insult your intelligence.
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