Video news in a world without TV

Posted by johnford
May 17, 2008

I’ve abandoned the world of television. It’s been about six months now since I’ve given up the burden of paying for and watching brainless . Of course, if there is a show or a movie that I absolutely have to or wanna watch, there’s always or torrents. But the one thing I really pined over and truly felt that I might be missing, although this too may be just something I convinced myself of, is watching . Of course you can always read the on-line, still there is something easy and dare I say fulfilling about watching television .

So how do I get my fix without ? podcasts. Two of the ‘big’ . and both offer podcasts of the nightly . ’s feed is hands down the best. produces a separate feed especially for the the web with . Gibson is friendly and personable while maintaining an authoritative presence. The feed is available every day at about 4ish Eastern Time and again updated around 7 or 8. The feed contains elements especially produced for the including a Google segment. Although I subscribe to the feed, I find myself almost never watching it. The newscast is a feed of the recorded nightly and unfortunately isn’t available until sometime after 10pm ET. So by the time I get around to watching it, it’s usually the next day. The feed is almost an automatic delete the following day. also offers a weekly of “Meet the ” in its entirety. makes available the Sunday morning roundtable “This Week,” if you can handle the no-talent, ponderous .

CNN offers a couple of interesting feeds. By far my personal favorite is “In Case You Missed It.” This is stories cut together as a vignette, without a talking head. Kind of a “produced” raw feed. Usually there are one or sometimes two daily feeds of “In Case You Missed It.” The other CNN feed I use is “Now in the .” These podcasts are usually around 3 minutes, updated every few hours and are produced much like “CNN Headline .”

On the international front, Sky offers a couple of different podcasts. After subscribing to a few of them, I’ve paired it down to just one: “Sky Headlines Update.” Very similar to the “Now in the ” CNN feed, but from a Brit perspective with both international headlines and from the UK. Well worth the subscription. By far, My favorite subscriptions for come from Link . Link offers a few related podcasts including: “,” “ Intelligence Report” and “Global Pulse.” “” is an insightful program with reports from numerous MIddle East broadcasters in a half-hour format. I highly recommend it. “ Intelligence Report” is Middle East broadcast reports with commentary and dare I say, sometimes unnecessary opinion. The excellent “Global Pulse” reports on stories from a perspective of numerous international broadcasters. It’s informative and telling to see how different countries and broadcasters report on the same story. “Global Pulse is by far my favorite .

Here’s my “short list” of recommended feeds, formatted for iTunes subscriptions, of course:

If you’ve got any other suggestions for podcasts that you think are worthwhile, please share em’.

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