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Scalia canceled subscription to 'shrilly liberal' Washington Post

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his wife used to subscribe to The Washington Post -- but no longer.

"We just get The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times. We used to get the Washington Post, but it just … went too far for me. I couldn’t handle it anymore," Scalia tells New York Magazine's Jennifer Senior in an interview published on Sunday.

"It was the treatment of almost any conservative issue. It was slanted and often nasty. And, you know, why should I get upset every morning?" Scalia said. "I don’t think I’m the only one. I think they lost subscriptions partly because they became so shrilly, shrilly liberal."

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Scalia and his wife don't read The New York Times, either.

"I get most of my news, probably, driving back and forth to work, on the radio," he tells Senior. "Sometimes NPR. But not usually."

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His preference is talk radio: "You know who my favorite is? My good friend Bill Bennett. He’s off the air by the time I’m driving in, but I listen to him sometimes when I’m shaving. He has a wonderful talk show. It’s very thoughtful. He has good callers. I think they keep off stupid people."

Read the full interview here.

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