Oct

19

Its easier than ever to be informed…

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When I was growing up, I used to watch the nightly news on CBS every night with my parents. That, then Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Sorta a nightly two hours of brain power for me. I felt fairly informed, even if I just read the comics in the morning and the sports section to follow up on my Buccaneers.

Moving away to college, I have to admit that I dropped out of touch with that whole geeky newsy side for a few years. Sure, I got the funny blog forwards and I used to skim the headlines on Reuters.com, but at the same time, its just not the same thing.

And then, with me watching less and less news, when I started watching MSNBC, I started to really remember what I missed. After we moved to Illinois, we had gotten rid of all of our TVs except for one. So nightly when I’d want to watch my usual shows, well, I’d get overruled from time to time. And I started to listen to my news via podcasts.

That being said, folks, we don’t need to sit down every night and watch at a certain time when the networks tell us that the news are to be watched. Nope. And you can choose whomever you want to hear it from, so, enjoy this nice collection of news podcasts for pretty much most of the networks I could think of:

ABC News
CBS News
Fox News
NBC/MSNBC
CNN News
BBC Radio
NPR Radio

Sure, there’s also AirAmerica and other outlets, but I figured I’d provide all of the major networks and common ones that folks know and commonly are referred to. Some of these–like CNN, CBS, and NBC/MSNBC–have full shows in audio or video, so there are a lot of options for catching your news as you’d like it. And no, you don’t need an iPod or iTunes for podcasts, you can always download a free podcast program, and because they’re just regular mp3s/audio files, you can just upload them to whatever mp3 device you have, or even watch or listen to them on your computer.

Be informed, folks. And not just for the upcoming election, but just in general. And from there? We can all have a better world.

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