Archive for the 'Freedom of Press' Category

Questions Not Asked in Studio Not Answered on Street

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

The reporter for The Washington Stakeout waited with his videographer outside news show studios in D.C. Sunday, ready to ask three national leaders some pointed questions that the TV hosts had not. After appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped for questions91. The reporter, Sam Husseini, asked the governor [...]

Net Neutrality in Pictures: CNN & GNN

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Here are three pictures of the Internet in the U.S.A., as it could be in the future.

The first picture is the Internet with net neutrality, where no one’s data gets priority over another’s1. This is the kind of Internet we have always had. In this picture CNN is the Cable News Network, a [...]

Telecoms Working Congress to Make ‘Information Superhighway’ a Toll Road

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The basic Internet principle of “net neutrality”, where no one’s content is favored over another’s, is now threatened by big telephone and cable corporations (the telecoms) and their allies in the U.S. Congress1. The telecoms, who now serve as gatekeepers (ISP’s) for most American broadband Internet users, seek to speed their own content and [...]