Stilly, I'm with you re NPR. I look at the headlines in the morning, but other than that, I just let the day go by. I know that if anything serious happens it will turn up within three minutes on FB or other social media, which I'm also limiting these days.

I will never forget, however, on the day the Twin Towers came down, how Mudcat was my news lifeline. American news media were crashing, and I stayed on this page while folks across the pond kept me apprised of what was going on. I was teaching in my music classroom, so had frequent changeovers of students (5 minutes in between) so would run to my computer, read the latest, run to the office and tell them what was known. I'm forever grateful to this site for that, and so many other reasons.