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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

March 16, 2009 | leave a comment
"When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place.... They are demanding to be lied to."

PBS should become the NPR of TV

February 23, 2009 | leave a comment
Doc Searls has long ties to the public radio community. He comments on the eroding viability of PBS and how it could reclaim its prominence and it audience by taking a page from NPR's playbook.