With some reluctance, I follow ZH on Twitter. Like other sites like Russian Times, Haretz, Al Jazera, it is good to be skeptical, but it is also good to break out of the hold that mainstream media has. In the USA, the &quot;news&quot; is so bad that I honestly believe that I get more information from random reading, just a few minutes a day, of sources from many countries on the web than the network &quot;news.&quot;<p>I travel a fair amount, and it seems like people in other countries don&#x27;t have an obsession with &quot;news&quot; that so many of my acquaintances in the USA have. I think that one hour a week is about the maximum amount of time anyone should spend on the news - better to spend the time engaging in business, family and friend time, write a book, volunteer with a charity, community involvement, etc.