Congratulations to Somerville Community Access Television. The local access channel – the oldest in the nation by the way – is still a leader: this week they brought home two awards from a national media contest. They won for overall excellence for the fifth time in six years and for "In Tune with Rasta" a documentary produced by student Anthony Soto on Rasta culture in America.

There's not much to be excited about in media these days. The supposed most cutting-edge medium, the web, is filled with link laden sites that do little more than compile the best of a few strong competitors. National outlets do little more than pump up phony outrage from both political extremes. And when was the last time you saw a great movie in the theater?