How Obsessed with the News are YOU?

[spottedtoad]

It would seem to me that people going into Policy or Government are likely to be among the more news-obsessed segments of the population.

Given that I have two small kids and a demanding job, the hour or more I spend (waste?) a day on newspapers and blogs represents almost all of my free time. What about you?

[JustChill]

I am all about the news. My homepage is Google news, and the first three sites I visit every web session are BBC News, NY Times (international edition), and CNN. I don't really know why, but for me it's very important to be up to date to what's going on in the country and the world.

[Kreid]

Definitely obsessed. I actually use an add-on for Firefox that displays a scrolling ticker of random stories from my sundry RSS feeds. I'm also usually reading several political blogs and discussion boards if I'm on the computer. Needless to say, I've done a fair bit of reading on Citizens United v. FEC today.

[pea-jay]

been a news junkie since third grade. yeah i know that is odd. I spend at least 2/hrs per day catching up on news in many different subject areas. Election year news cycles (2006, 2008, 2010...)are worse for me though.

[cosmike10]

A more interesting take on this poll would be to see where people here get their news. Major network television, newspaper, internet, alternative media, radio, and so on.

[Ashlee]

Being a journalist/newspaper copy editor, I spend a bare minimum of 9 hours a day absorbing, editing, sourcing or writing news. And that's just at work, then there's the stuff I read for fun.