F the NYT

I'm at a breaking point. I can't take it anymore. The time has come. I'm done with the New York Times. However, as "the newspaper of record" this is sort of like quitting heroin. So, I'm hoping JJ8 can help me. I'm looking for a reputable, fairly large scale news source. I don't care about celebrities, I don't care about $1000-a-night "europe on a bargain" vacations, I don't care about un-ironic stories about millionaires who feel poor, and I certainly don't care about the grotesquely transparent lobbying of Bill Kristol (and for the record, I'm all for them staffing another conservative, but write op-eds, not candidate endorsements/assassinations. I mean at least Bill Safire did some research and though critically. In a side note, why do papers endorse candidate. That always felt wildly inappropriate to me. I digress).

I was moving toward Slate.com but it's trend toward intellectual shock & awe (watch me contradict conventional wisdom. I'm so independent!!!) and recent foray into IQ hereditarianism and race-based eugenics has, shall we say, led us to see other people. Salon has been interesting lately, and the BBC is ok, if classically dry.

JJ8-ers I need your help. The floor is yours.