Have two celebrated journalists become collateral damage in the Pentagon’s latest murky media “information operation?”

A controversial new PBS news magazine aims at “revitalizing public media” while raising fears among viewers and questions about priorities.

A new study shows that grantmakers may finally be learning what democratic but “dependent” mediamakers already knew: “We’re engaged in a war of ideas in which you can be right and still be wrong unless you can popularize and mainstream those ideas so they get adopted.”

“I listen to talk radio,” Chomsky said. “I don’t want to hear Rush Limbaugh. I want to hear the people calling in.”