Charter to Snoop on Broadband Customers
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(Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:35 -0500 (CDT)) --- Media Reform Daily
News of the movement for May 14, 2008
--SAVE THE INTERNET--
TWO TELECOM BILLS FORM A UNITED FRONT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION The
two House bills addressing Net Neutrality can work together to
provide consumers, competitors and the government with many more
tools to try to ensure broadband carriers work in a pro-competitive
way that's in the public interest.
Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge
DR. BARBARA VAN SCHEWICK SAYS NET NEUTRALITY IS A REQUIREMENT FOR
COMPETITION Dr. Barbara van Schewick, who conducted research on Net
Neutrality before the topic became known to the general public, is
convinced that lack of Net Neutrality regulations would hamper
innovation and competition.
Monika Ermert, heise online
CHARTER TO SNOOP ON BROADBAND CUSTOMERS' WEB HISTORIES FOR AD
NETWORKS Charter Communications, one of the nation's largest ISPs,
plans to begin eavesdropping on the Web surfing of its customers
in order to help Web advertisers deliver targeted ads.
Ryan Singel, Wired
WEB CREATOR REJECTS NET TRACKING The creator of the Web has said
consumers need to be protected against systems that can track their
activity on the Internet.
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News
BELL CANADA ACCUSED OF PRIVACY VIOLATIONS A public interest group
in Canada has filed a complaint, asking the country's privacy
commissioner to investigate Bell Canada for allegedly managing
Internet traffic in a way that violates users' privacy.
Wendy Davis, Media Post
ELUDE YOUR ISP'S BITTORRENT BLOCKADE If you suspect that your ISP
is blocking or throttling your BitTorrent traffic, there are steps
you can take.
Tom Spring, PC World
ACT NOW!
Support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act
--STOP BIG MEDIA--
REID TO SCHEDULE VOTE ON FCC-BLOCKING RESOLUTION Look for the Senate
to vote on a resolution to invalidate the FCC's newspaper-broadcast
cross-ownership rule change within the next two or three weeks.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
MURDOCH LOSES BUT CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES Rupert Murdoch -- an aged
and male version of a pouting Veruca Salt -- didn't get his umpa
lumpa. He lost the bidding war for Newsday when Cablevision swooped
in to plunk down more cash than Murdoch was willing to cede.
Megan Tady, StopBigMedia.com
AUTHOR ARGUES CLEAR CHANNEL DESTROYED RADIO The name "Clear Channel"
has become shorthand for everything wrong with terrestrial radio:
lack of diversity, repetitious music, boring programming, too many
commercials, censorship, jingoism, ad nauseam.
Richard Pachter, Miami Herald
CLEAR CHANNEL REACHES BUYOUT DEAL WITH EQUITY FIRMS AND BANKS Clear
Channel said that it had resolved a legal dispute over its buyout,
clearing the way for prospective buyers to take the radio and outdoor
advertising company private.
Associated Press
ACT NOW!
Tell Congress to Stop the FCC
--COMMUNITY INTERNET--
VINT CERF SUPPORTS MUNICIPAL BROADBAND NETWORKS Municipal broadband
networks could help boost the availability of high-speed Internet
access and even help to ensure Net Neutrality, said Vint Cerf, vice
president and chief Internet evangelist at Google.
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
EARTHLINK TO PULL THE PLUG ON WI-FI IN PHILADELPHIA EarthLink is
pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network
in Philadelphia, once touted as a model for how big cities should
deploy Wi-Fi.
Deborah Yao, Associated Press
EATHLINK DITCHES PHILLY WI-FI NETWORK Philadelphia Mayor Michael
Nutter is disappointed that Earthlink will abandon Wireless
Philadelphia and indicated the city might hold the company accountable
to some financial obligations in its 10-year contract.
Marguerite Reardon, CNet
DELRAY BEACH CANCELS WI-FI CONTRACT The city of Delray Beach, Florida
has decided to terminate its contract with E-Path Communications,
the company that the city hired to deploy a wireless hotzone. E-Path
says it had problems getting wireless equipment on utility light
poles.
Esme Vos, MuniWireless
--JOURNALISM & BEYOND--
WHO WILL TELL US?
The question of whether newspapers will continue to exist in paper
and ink is irrelevant. What matters is that the DNA of the best
journalism -- investigative, public-service-oriented -- be instilled
in the news outlets of the future.
Columbia Journalism Review
BILL MOYERS ON THE STATE OF THE MEDIA IN THIS POLITICAL YEAR Bill
Moyers discussed with Keith Olberman the state of the media in this
political year.
Huffington Post
MCCLATCHY OPEN TO SELLING SEATTLE TIMES CO. STAKE McClatchy president
Gary Pruitt said the company is open to selling the 49.5 percent
share of the Seattle Times Co. it acquired as part of the purchase
of Knight Ridder Inc. in 2006.
Editor & Publisher
CHINESE JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS Qi Chonghuai, a Chinese
journalist who had written critically about local officials in the
Shandong province, was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud
and extortion in a trial that lasted 12 hours.
Committee to Protect Journalists
VIETNAM MEDIA DENOUNCE REPORTERS' ARRESTS The arrests of two
Vietnamese reporters for their coverage of a bribery, gambling and
corruption scandal have led to a highly unusual confrontation between
Vietnam's Communist government and the country's state-controlled
newspapers.
Ben Stocking, Associated Press
WEB USERS BACK CODE FOR BLOGGERS Nearly half of all Internet users
would support a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and online
commentators, according to research.
Jemima Kiss, The Guardian
--FEATURE--
DON'T MISS Media Matters with Robert McChesney hosts Janine Jackson
of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
FP ACTION NETWORK
--IN OTHER NEWS--
BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR CONSIDERING ATTEMPT TO OUST YAHOO BOARD
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly loading up on Yahoo's
stock in preparation for a possible attempt to shove aside the
Internet icon's board and bring the company's disillusioned suitor,
Microsoft., back to the bargaining table.
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press
CONSUMER GROUPS URGE FCC TO REJECT XM-SIRIUS MERGER Permitting
satellite radio companies XM and Sirius to merge would have many
negative side effects -- both for consumers and for the satellite
radio industry, consumer groups charged.
Consumer Affairs
NEXT PRESIDENT SHOULD LAUNCH THE DIGITAL NEW DEAL Even though we
inhabit a technologically saturated environment, America is not
keeping pace in its capacity as a technological world leader. With
fewer opportunities to earn a decent living, it's time for a Digital
New Deal.
Helen De Michiel, Afro-Netizen
GOOGLE BLURS THE PRIVACY ISSUE Google is hoping to avoid a fight
with European privacy campaigners as it prepares to launch its
controversial Street View service in Europe later in the year, by
introducing new technology that blurs the faces of people its cameras
inadvertently snap while scanning the streets.
Richard Wray, The Guardian
DIGITAL TV TIME BOMB -- HIDING THE WHOLE PICTURE FROM THE AMERICAN
PUBLIC While the FCC has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars
to educate the public about the transition to digital TV, it has
failed to tell the public the full story.
Teletruth
TEXTING IS FOUR TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN RECEIVING SCIENTIFIC DATA
FROM SPACE A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out
that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more
expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Physorg.com
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