http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/03/23/a-new-challenge-to-net-neutrality/ The national media watch group Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:22:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/03/23/a-new-challenge-to-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-3645 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Activists Beat Back Tiered Internet Scheme Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:07 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-3645 [...] when "the company buckled under a withering barrage of negative press and consumer complaints" from Net Neutrality advocates: "Free Press activists sent more than 16,000 letters urging Congress to investigate Time [...] [...] when "the company buckled under a withering barrage of negative press and consumer complaints" from Net Neutrality advocates: "Free Press activists sent more than 16,000 letters urging Congress to investigate Time [...]

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/03/23/a-new-challenge-to-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-3373 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Pelosi: More Corporatization for Failing News Corporations Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:08:26 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-3373 [...] Free Press' Craig Aaron and Joseph Torres (Guardian.co.uk, 3/26/09) promptly knock down the scary development in which Nancy Pelosi recently "asked attorney general Eric Holder to consider loosening antitrust laws to help out struggling newspapers by allowing more media mergers. Holder responded by saying he is open to revisiting the rules": Pelosi's request sounds innocuous at first--after all, struggling newspapers seem to need all the help they can get. But opening the door to more media consolidation is not the cure for the crisis in journalism. More of this bad medicine will only weaken reporting and worsen the health of our democracy. [...] [...] Free Press' Craig Aaron and Joseph Torres (Guardian.co.uk, 3/26/09) promptly knock down the scary development in which Nancy Pelosi recently "asked attorney general Eric Holder to consider loosening antitrust laws to help out struggling newspapers by allowing more media mergers. Holder responded by saying he is open to revisiting the rules": Pelosi's request sounds innocuous at first--after all, struggling newspapers seem to need all the help they can get. But opening the door to more media consolidation is not the cure for the crisis in journalism. More of this bad medicine will only weaken reporting and worsen the health of our democracy. [...]

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