Not surprising ... but potentially bad news for public broadcasting.

Quoted: For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.

The Root's picks for the the top 20 events/developments of the decade.

Quoted: When we asked our contributors to name the most important events of the decade, there were some obvious choices, and quite a few that reflect The Root’s unique worldview.

Such a good point...

Quoted: In rural areas, the “information superhighway” is really more like a one-lane dirt road. The “rural-urban gap” in broadband service can leave residents and businesses at a real disadvantage. Msnbc.com’s Alex Johnson reports.

Cool!

Quoted: The New Year's Eve crystal ball that drops in Times Square will have a new kind of sparkle when it descends at the stroke of midnight Thursday.

It's unbelievable that it's taken a judge this long to come to this ruling -- it's only because the Brazilian family has so much political pull...

Quoted: A federal court gives a Brazilian family until Thursday morning to turn over custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father.

Love this episode of This American Life

Quoted: 172: 24 Hours at the Golden Apple - The This American Life producers document one day in a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple, starting at 5 a.m. and going until 5 a.m. the next morning.

Aw, I loved Olivia!

Quoted: Alaina Reed Hall, a singer and actress who played Olivia Robinson on "Sesame Street" for a dozen years beginning in the mid-1970s and later played Rose Holloway on the situation comedy "227," has died. She was 63.

Our final piece on this subject matter :)

Quoted: Plagiarism isn’t always a black and white issue … but could it be a brown one?

This is so outta control...

Quoted: The city's police chief slammed a veteran detective Monday for pulling a gun during a mass snowball fight that had been advertised on Twitter.