The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

The world is a crazy beautiful ugly complicated place and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away that's when this stuff comes.