Glad to see John Hockenberry around again -- I read his bio ("Moving Violations", highly recommended) years ago, and have been a fan ever since.

I gave up on TV news years ago, and am about ready to give up on newspapers. I get most of my "real" news from analytical articles in magazines, print or online -- the Economist, Foreign Affairs, Slate, Salon, and so forth, and from a few interactive community-contribution websites (boingboing included, of course.) All of them are necessarily selective in what they address, and most of them have a bias and agenda, but if you know that, you can read through it, and maybe learn something.

I wonder sometimes if US news and TV media have made too much of a fetish of neutrality. Might we be better served by professional, fact-based journalism that's not shy about its agenda? Think of the Times and the Guardian in Britain. It might be happening, too, if Murdoch's Wall Street Journal goes right and the NYT reacts by going left.