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I’ve been enjoying the trail of MEDIA DIET posts over at The Atlantic and was especially thrilled to find out what Ezra Klein reads a few weeks ago.

I’m a bit of a news junkie myself, so I thought I’d take a walk through what I read on a regular basis with the help of Google Reader trends.  It is probably best to start by saying that I don’t own a TV, so  RSS feeds are the basis of my news world.

As a night owl, I do most of my media consumption between  7 p.m. – 1 a.m. because it’s uninterrupted reading time once I’ve made it home from the gym and whatever afterwork commitments I have on a given day.

I start any news dive with a visit to the Huffington Post to see what’s trending.  I love using it as a starting point because as I begin following the aggregated content back to its home source, I wind up pinging across a number of news sites I wouldn’t necessarily visit daily otherwise. It is also rare for me to miss the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC (videos are released online about an hour after the show ends each weeknight), and I catch most episodes of The Daily Show.

As I write this post, there are 167 feeds in my reader, so this post is hardly exhaustive in reviewing what I read.  It is impossible to keep up with everything, but I find that each time I remove a feed, I somehow wind up adding a few more.  So I let my topics of interest ebb and flow over time.

For current events I follow parts of the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, ProPublica, Washington Post, Salon and TreeHugger.  For tech news, I head to TechCrunch and Mashable.

The blogs I read are disparate to say the least.  I read Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, Center for American Progress’s Think Progress, BoingBoing, BigThink, Jezebel.

Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof, Ezra Klein, Michelle Goldberg, Robert Reich, Jon Taplin and Jay Smooth provide lots of food for thought.

In case you hadn’t noticed, I find  culture and politics fascinating, so Talking Points Memo and the latest Pew Research statistics are regular reads.

I also read for entertainment value – Indexed, ChartPorn and Joy the Baker.

The most surprising item in my reader is probably Michael Hyatt‘s blog.  He’s the CEO of a Christian Publishing Company who writes excellent posts on leadership.

I’m not a huge fan of print magazines.  They tend to stack up for 3 or 4 months before I finally flip through them. It is a rare day that I read a magazine cover to cover. Current subscriptions: Wired, Fast Company and Ode.

And, of course, there’s my 50-book goal each year.

In between all the reading, I keep up with some TV thanks to the Intertubes and Netflix: Bones, House, Vampire Diaries, 30 Rock and How I Met Your Mother during the regular network season and Rescue Me, The Closer, Leverage, In Plain Sight  and True Blood online and by DVD in the off season.

That’s a basic overview of my media consumption.  What about you?