Why to Save Public Media: It's Yours

[Commentary] Once again, some members of Congress want to kill funding for public media. Now, not only do I disagree with that, but I also disagree with a lot of the ways people are framing why and how to "save" public media. We can talk all we want about saving NPR and PBS, but really what we are saving is our own access to information and community. First of all, America's public media is a shadow of that in many developed countries. If we want to wallow in our own ignorance, then we can try to eliminate the funding pipeline. At the same time -- not to be dismissive, but not to be alarmist -- what we call public media is already vastly funded by private individuals and underwriting.