Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

First they start the effort to put all their legacy content online for free (to Brits, anyway) now they have this:
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You know, because of even the structure of our public media in the States, NPR and PBS will never be this cool. Hell, just in general I can only wish that the American Media Aparatus was nearly as enlightened about the future of media as the EU and Japanese media.