Great show on Democracy Now! last Friday that I'm watching now:

Stop-Loss: A Look at the US Military Policy that Creates a “Backdoor Draft” to Force Soldiers to Continue Service
With about 175,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US military has been forced to rely on a controversial policy known as “stop-loss” to force soldiers ( Read more... )

KCCO in Minnesota did an excellent job of informing the public about a critical issue recently.

Watch and/or read it here:
Reality Check: New Ad On Unions Organizing Workers This is exactly what I think of when I think of public interest stories, an important issue that affects a majority of viewers and that many would otherwise be not only ( Read more... )

This is the kind of thing that really bugs me about NPR. They'll have some half-way decent stories, and then just repeat propoganda wholesale. This morning it was the myth of Giuliani not campaigning in New Hampshire and only focussing on the Florida primary ( Read more... )