News Headlines
Read the most recent news articles on media reform issues.
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May 12.2008
The Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Free Press are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject the proposed XM-Sirius merger.
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May 12.2008
Nobody interested in how people in power manipulate public opinion can afford to miss the exposé of the Bush administration's use of "experts" to sell the Iraq war and defend itself over Guantánamo.
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May 11.2008
Neither DMCA takedown notices nor RIAA prelitigation letters have any necessary correlation with on-campus P2P usage rates, as the recent upsurge in RIAA letters this last month shows (the RIAA says that the higher volume is a result of changes to the way MediaSentry detects P2P use).
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May 8.2008
During a meeting of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Senator John Kerry used Massachusetts as an example of the continuing problem of the digital divide.
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May 8.2008
Don't expect to watch her on NBC or MSNBC, not after the skin she rips off Tim Russert's hide, but Arianna Huffington has emerged as America's highest-profile defector from the political right.
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May 12.2008
To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month turn to social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook. But what if the Web itself worked as a social network?
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May 7.2008
When Burmese troops opened fire on unarmed demonstrators here last September, marking the violent culmination of weeks of pro-democracy protests, the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) had 30 undercover reporters on the streets.
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May 12.2008
Society of Professional Journalists leaders are urging the U.S. media to hold their military analysts to the same ethical standards journalists are required to meet concerning potential conflicts of interest, financial ties, and relationships with government agencies.
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May 12.2008
Should the FCC be the final authority deciding just what constitutes "net neutrality," and how ISPs should be punished if they fail to provide it? Or would you rather the matter be resolved in the federal court system?
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May 9.2008
Multiple system operator (MSO) Cablevision has decided to build a massive $350 million Wi-Fi mesh, covering its customer base in the New York Metropolitan area, and offer the service free to its customer base of cable TV, business broadband, residential broadband and VoIP users.
