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CREW Advises MSNBC to Pull Deceptive Health Care Ad »
Posted by: Spadecaller 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin asking that MSNBC stop airing an ad sponsored by ...
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FCC probes Comcast's phone practices »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months ago in News
Comcast, the nation's biggest cable TV operator, is being investigated by the FCC over concerns that it is giving preferential treatment to its phone ...
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More Ghosts in the Machine »
Posted by: JSilver 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable company, has unveiled a plan to monitor and slow Internet content it deems unimportant. With this news, Cox ...
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Hopeful After 2008 »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The year 2003 holds a special place in the history of the media reform movement. That was the year when then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell tried ...
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Restore Net Neutrality Protections to the Internet »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
During the campaign, Barack Obama pledged to “take a backseat to no one in my commitment to Net Neutrality"
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New Networks Must Be Neutral »
Posted by: JSilver 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package requires that the billions of dollars dedicated to expanding America’s Internet be spent on projects that meet ...
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Change or Cha-ching? »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months ago in News
As the president and Congress decide how much money to spend getting high-speed Internet to millions of Americans who are living offline, children in Washington ...
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Online Stimulus »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As Congress prepares to weigh elements of President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan next week, it seems apparent to us that his proposal to significantly ...
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Genachowski to Chair FCC: Prospects for Media and Internet »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months, 1 week ago in News
President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Julius Genachowski to head the FCC. Genachowski anchored the drafting of Obama's media policy agenda...
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Wired Less: Disconnected in Urban America »
Posted by: JSilver 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Got Internet? Many people in urban America don't. Watch and read the stories of people living, working and struggling without Internet in our biggest ...
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The Quintero Family, Los Angeles »
Posted by: JSilver 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Five-year-old Memphis Quintero wanted to show off. In a family of six children, Memphis' precocious performances outshine even her cuddly younger twin sisters. But instead ...
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Free Press Update: Internet Stimulus »
Posted by: JSilver 9 months ago in Political News
Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver on what the new economic stimulus bill means for the Internet -- and the future of media and innovation in ...
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Fairness Doctrine 'Debate' Goes Off the Deep End »
Posted by: bubba2 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The Fairness Doctrine is dead. But some Republicans are still trying to prop up the issue and parade it around in a tired political theater ...
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Obama's FCC Pick Another Good Sign for Open Media »
Posted by: JSilver 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
As anticipated, Julius Genachowski has been tapped by President Barack Obama to head the Federal Communications Commission...
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Too-Popular Radio Station Forced To Play Country Music »
Posted by: newsguy2005 2 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
In an effort to maintain fairness on its public airwaves, the Australian equivalent of the FCC has found one of its radio stations too popular ...
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