Jim Dixon,

noticed your post that said "Newspapers don't interest me much, because I've usually heard it all already on NPR - except that I sometimes read the columns on the op-ed page. So what's wrong with that? "

Not much, if you want superficial news. Did you know that if you wrote out all of the words spoken in a 30-minute television newscast, then added a descriptive paragraph for every film clip and/or graphic they use, you would fill the top third of the front page of a newspaper?

I spent the first few years of my working life in broadcast news, then realized how shallow it is and switched to newspapers. As I said before, they write headlines for us, but that's about all....

david