Perhaps public broadcasting is not so different from newspapers. Newspapers are no longer the purveyors of news since it is available faster from other sources. What newspapers can add is context. Why, how, in what ways is this news item significant because it relates to other things around us? This would be valuable.

Perhaps the content for public broadcasting is context. Public television is a content generating social medium in the same family as Facebook, You Tube, and Flkr. They may not consider themselves as such, but with the diversity of content venues available. perhaps it’s time for public broadcasting to reconsider.