Do you believe in fairy tales?

AT&T wants you to. The phone giant is trying to make everyone believe that its takeover of T-Mobile would be good for jobs, innovation and the economy, while saving you hundreds of dollars on your smartphone.

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Public broadcasting has survived another bruising round of attacks, thanks to the enormous outcry from all corners of the country and across the political spectrum. Thanks, in other words, to you.

As we gathered in Boston earlier this month with 2,500 other media reform advocates at the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), the White House and Congress were on the verge of a possible government shutdown. The last minute deal our lawmakers struck included roughly $40 billion in cuts to an array of vital programs, but NPR and PBS were taken off the table. After hearing from millions of Americans, lawmakers got the message.

On election night in the fall of 2000 I was serving with AmeriCorps in Adirondack Park in upstate New York. I was stationed at an old logging camp, now owned by the state, and spent my days serving as a teacher and mentor in a local school. We got our electricity from a generator and we didn’t have any access to cable TV or high speed internet. So that night, my fellow AmeriCorps members and I huddled around a small transistor radio in our kitchen and listened to the drama of that contentious election play out on North Country Public Radio. It was our only access to the outside world, our only reliable source of local, regional and national news.