Read: NY Times!!! for news. Salon, Economist, for great opinion pieces.
CNN for a quick fix (though most of it is not "news" but garbage - ie front headlines this morning "Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over a cricket. She tore her dorm room apart every night looking for the critter. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of crickets was Jiminy from "Pinocchio." - really CNN?)
Watch: CNN in the am, Daily Show in the pm