'Media Regulation' Category
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Why the FCC Will Get Media Ownership Wrong Again
January 29, 2007Why the FCC Will Get Media Ownership Wrong Again, And What They Should Do to Get it Right, by Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress, January 26, 2007. Whatever happened to the FCC’s obligation to consider the public interest? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the public interest is. As long as the [...]
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End of the internet?
April 13, 2006The End of the Internet? Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, wrote this article back in February. In fact, we probably blogged about it right here because net neutrality is a HUGE issue for libraries. And if you didn’t get a chance to read the article the first time around, Amy [...]
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Narnia walks out of WTO talks
January 1, 2006The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks A hoax press-release describing Narnia’s ambassador’s dissatisfaction with the current round of World Trade Organization talks was picked up and run as news by many outlets including Forbes.
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ALA gets on the broadbandwagon
August 19, 2005ABA Journal: Librarians Lead Legal Battles Over the Patriot Act, Copyright, Tech Issues All right! Just as the American Bar Association writes that ALA is becoming a force to be reckoned with as Òone of the most active players in legal fights over technology, copyright, national security, censorship and privacy lawÓ, I ran across this [...]
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Free community wi-fi is a library issue
August 8, 2005MuniWireless article series Libraries are all about access to information right? Then librarians should be talking about and advocating for municipal wireless networks. Wireless should be seen as just one more public utility (water, sewer, …) that should be supported by city governments. Currently, 34 U.S. cities and 50 foreign cities have deployed Wi-Fi, while [...]
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The problem with the Newsweek Quran retraction
May 17, 2005White House Urges Newsweek to Repair Damage Caused by Report – New York Times (registration may be required. If so, go to BugMeNot) Does anyone else see a problem here? Newsweek has retracted its story about Gitmo interogators flushing of the Quran. They did this not because it was a false statement but because the [...]
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Conference on media reform
May 14, 2005Free Press : 2005 National Conference for Media Reform It’s happening this weekend in St Louis. You don’t have to be there to get in on the action. According to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now (in an interview with Urbana IMC’s Sasha Meinrath!), Bill Moyers will make his first public statement on the growing controversy [...]
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Tivo fans rejoice!
May 9, 2005Public Knowledge – Broadcast Flag Court Challenge Well, it’s more than TIVO fans, it’s anyone who uses electronics. The FCC’s broadcast flag has been shot down by the US Court of Appeals! This is a major victory for libraries as it strengthens the fair use doctrine of the copyright law — ALA, AALL, Medical Library [...]
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Real Radio!
March 9, 2005And Now For Some *Real* Radio / Last week: The death of corporate rock radio. This week: Readers extol glorious alternatives. Listen up! By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Hey all you podcasters out there. There are *tons* of alternatives to clear channel and this article lists some of them. Check [...]
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FCC abandons media consolidation rules
January 28, 2005Business > White House Drops Effort to Relax Media Ownership Rules” h ref=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/business/27cnd-media.html?ex=1264568400&en=b0f560bbece8fb57&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>White House Drops Effort to Relax Media Ownership Rules This is great news. However, there’s a cloud in this silver lining (see quote below). The FCC didn’t want the SC to take the case because they want to keep hammering away at first [...]