I prefer it because they aggregate (and shorten) articles from various other news sources from around the world, and across the ideological spectrum, so that one has access to the work of hundreds of experts rather than a handful of generalists.

An old wag once said that, just as cigarettes provided people with something to do with their hands when they weren’t working, Time magazine provides people with something to do with their minds when they aren’t thinking. While that might be a little bit unfair, I do notice that reading it never seems to be accompanied by any thrills of discovery or wonder at new facts or well-turned phrases.

Boorstin’s “experiment” aimed at an even more focused reading regimen than yours, Hunter. (And, needless to say, that was long before the advent of blogs!)