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I try my best to keep up on what is happening in the world, but I have to admit that I get most of my news from NPR. I know it is a bad idea to get it from one place, but the car ride is when I listen in since I don't really watch TV or read those archaic newspapers. Other than the radio I read what interest me on the Internet, but then I am just reading interesting things and not the whole story.
Now NPR is not exactly Rush Limbaugh, but it is still much closer to Air America than it is to unbiased news (like that exists.) I think they do a good job, but I know that they are going to take the liberal stance whenever possible. I listen to them because their stories are longer and not just sound bites wrapped up in 45 seconds. I think that if you can get past the hosts voices being slow and monotone you will find that the stories can be very interesting. You just have to understand that the hosts are not trying to run the show, the stories are what the shows are all about. They give a human side
The reason I started listening to NPR for new was simple. I hate AM. Not the people that are on AM in specific, but I hate the quality. My local NPR station (and I think most NPR stations) is on the low end of the FM range, so the sound is as good as it needs to be for a talk show. After starting to listen I realized that the website is really nice also. They archive their stories to be heard later by anyone that wants to hear them and they get new stories archived reasonable fast.
I emailed them and suppodedly NPR is working on an RSS feed for all you news geeks out there like me.
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