Monthly Archives: April, 2006
The Threat to Net Neutrality is a Threat to You and Me
I won’t dwell long on this topic, but rather let others explain it. Congress is considering legislation that would allow telecom and cable company to create gates to the Internet and let them charge websites for faster pipelines to your browser. This is simply a wrong-headed policy that would put money in corporate pockets at …
Del Mar College Bans MySpace
Well, Del Mar College in Texas has banned students from using the mega-community MySpace on the college’s computer network. Unlike high schools and grad schools around the country, who have banned MySpace to protect students from predators (and to protect the school districts’ liability), Del Mar has banned MySpace because its use is eating up …
Questions as Similes
Is George Bush leading an investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame’s covert identity the same as O.J. Simpson looking for Nicole’s murderer?
Corporate Sponsored News Passed Off as Journalism
After last year’s revelation that the Bush Administration used Video News Reports (VNR), created by the government and distributed to TV news shows, to promote the War in Iraq, we now learn that corporate VNRs are being passed off by many local TV stations as real journalism. The lure is so compelling. A ready-to-go story …
