Magazines are folding; newspapers are substantially cutting their staffs; and television news networks are increasingly competing with Web sources for an audience. In short, commercial media is experiencing a bit of a crisis. But what does this mean for public media? Can public media seize this moment as an opportunity to reinvent itself? Jessica Clark and Patricia Aufderheide consider the steps necessary to develop a public-media network capable of building publics, and a group of experts define public media for the future. Public-media policy recommendations will also be posted here on TAPPED throughout the day.
Meanwhile, Matthew Yglesias ponders the question, "If conservatives love torture so much, why don't they marry it?"
And Nathan Schneider wonders if attempts to reclaim Christianity for humanism are mere wishful thinking.
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