Media Consumption Diet

Dawkinsian. Based on Jeremiah's original post, here's my own media consumption diet, ranked from those I consume most to the occasional midnight snack: Web: I get most of my news this way, though not that much entertainment. I read a bunch of blogs, though not as many as I'd like to. Instead, I generally stick with a couple dozen blogs I read regularly, most of which I receive via email subscriptions (with Ad Age increasingly has some of the best work-related news; it's a rare day when I don't read at least one of its articles in full. As for other trades, while I'm biased since I write for them, I get most of what I need for daily news from MarketingVox. For in-depth, long-form content, Books: I read about a book a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. , lent to me by a colleague, will take a bit longer.

Magazines: I love magazines. Weekly: The Week, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Fortune. Monthly: Wired, Business 2.0. There are others - I'm blanking as I write this. I enjoy some writing offline, and the portability helps. If some digital reader hit the market, I wouldn't buy it, unless we were in some environmental do-or-die crisis and we ran out of trees.

Newspapers: I read the free amNY most mornings on the way to work and will pore over the NY Times; we get a daily subscription at home. I read Sunday's Times the most and try to catch up on Thomas Friedman columns.

Movie Theaters: I enjoy the distraction, though over the past year I've seen fewer than I have in a long time.

Broadway: Cara and I have seen a ton of shows together, though we're mostly caught up for awhile. Spring Awakening is the best thing we saw in awhile.

Museums: Visual and performing arts should count as media, right? Cara and I have been slacking off lately, but once it gets warmer, we'll take full advantage of being a few blocks from Museum Mile.

Music: I used to listen to so much more, and I always have my iPod on me, but on the subway I read, at work it distracts me, and at home I watch TV, so music in any form gets the squeeze. I don't touch the radio at all. Maybe my music hiatus will end once I pick up the new album from the Comments

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