Better than TV if you ask me. And if you want news days ahead of the regular media, FR is the place.
I irritate the hell out of my mother every morning, reading over her shoulder and correcting the headlines in the paper! They're always a day behind, it seems to be. I end up saying, "Well, the last thing I read last night said 80,000 were dead."
(She thinks I'm a genuis.......LOL)