Category: media ownership & consolidation
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Moby and Rep. Ed Markey’s Press Conference to Save the Internet
Moveon.org is hosting a video from Thursday’s SaveTheInternet press conference featuring Moby and Rep. Ed Markey.
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Growing the Movement To Save the Internet with Moby, REM and Others
An unsuprising coalition of musicians has come together under the banner of Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom to support network neutrality legislation. Strangely, the group doesn’t have a website yet, though REM’s website has an announcement about it, and explains the issue rather succinctly: Net Neutrality is the long-held principle that all online speech…
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Chicago Protest Against AT&T’s Anti-Net-Neutrality Campaign, May 24
Just received word from Mitchell at Chicago Media Action that they’re planning a protest against AT&T as part of a national Day of Media Outrage: In response to dreadful proposed media-related legislation now working its way through Congress, Chicago Media Action, along with organizers in Boston and New York City (and a number of other…
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Telco Scare Mongering: High-Bandwidth Video Will Clog the Pipes
A story about the looming threat of high-bandwidth video on the internet, authored by AP technology writer Peter Svensson, has been making the rounds of the blogosphere today. In it, a Verizon lobbyist claims that “The plain truth is that today’s access and backbone networks simply do not have the capacity to deliver all that…
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Broadcast Industry Journal on Jon Stewart Mocking Nexstar’s Duane Lammers Critique
Somewhat belatedly, Broadcasting and Cable picks up on the Daily Show taking aim at WTWO’s weather attack ads and Nexstar’s Duane Lammers (by the way, it’s pronounced “lamers,” as in “lame” – “ers”).
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Jon Stewart Calls Out Nexstar and VP/COO Duane Lammers
And I believe that he called them “pussies,” for not airing “Book of Daniel” earlier in the year. Kudos to the Daily Show research department. But the real point of the segment that aired on tonight’s Daily Show was to follow up on a piece he did a couple nights ago making fun of Nexstar‘s…
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A Thin Facade of Democracy that Fred Upton Doesn’t Even Try To Believe
Aw, come on, you didn’t think that debates in committee and on the House and Senate floor really amounted to anything, did you? Rep. Fred Upton, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sure as hell does, and was remarkably candid about that fact last week, as reported by the Cox News Service: The…
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An Hour on Net Neutrality with McChesney and Co.
Yesterday’s edition of Prof. Bob McChesney’s weekly radio program was dedicated to net neutrality, with guests Tim Karr of Free Press and Adam Green, of MoveOn.org, which I think only recently joined the campaign. It’s a packed hour and worth listening to, especially since guys like Karr have been pretty much living and breathing net…
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Little Telcos’ Merger Challenge Adds New Wrinkle to Net Neutrality Fight
Last year the dual mergers of AT&T with SBC and Verizon with MCI passed the justice department with nary a speedbump and only the most minimal of conditions. Those mergers also gave reason to kick off the campaign for network neutrality, because it was the newly engorged and emboldened AT&T and Verizon which started making…
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The Internet as We Know It Is an Accident, but the Design Isn’t. For the Telcos, It’s Just an Excuse.
Earlier this week Tim Berners-Lee, the architecht of the world-wide web, posted a short essay on network neutrality. Like other wise commentators such as Vint Cerf and Larry Lessig, Berners-Lee argues that without net neutrality being law the US’s dominant telephone companies will inhibit the future introduction of innovative internet technologies all in service of…