After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he’d cut funding for PBS, the network came to its own defense with a strongly worded rebuke.

“So the thing you have to understand is this is radio,” says the voice in the darkness — a little bit squeaky, a little bit nasal, not at all the voice you’d assign to the leader of a benign radio cult if it weren’t already so familiar. Ira Glass, creator and host of the weekly public radio story anthology This American Life, begins all his speaking engagements this way. That opening line is always good…

The Public Broadcasting Service will be moving their headquarters to Crystal City from Alexandria. The county of Arlington couldn’t resist crowing about the move in a press release, boasting they’d be moving into the “heart of newly-revitalized Crystal City.” Yet beneath the glowing news about “one of America’s preeminent places for living, visiting and doing business,” there’s a less rosy reality. PBS will be moving into some of the 1.4 million square feet vacated by…