If you see the PBS “NewsHour,” you’re a member of an increasingly select group. The “NewsHour” has lost half its audience in the last eight years, reports TV critic David Zurawik: from Two.Five million nightly viewers in two thousand five to 1.Trio million now. (more…)
An Uber driverless Ford Fusion drives down Smallman Street on September, 22, two thousand sixteen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen / Getty Photos
The futuristic vision suggested by automated vehicles—the freedom to be active during your commute instead of wasting away behind the wheel while stuck in traffic—isn’t fairly as utopian a script when you run it past cautious and worried city planners. (more…)