net neutrality
Op-ed editors: Please do your homework
Submitted by yelvington on August 3, 2006 - 11:49amIf newspaper editorial pages are to add any value in this anyone-can-publish era, that value will come from maintaining and defending a standard of truth. No discussion is ever improved by a deliberate misstatement of the facts. But the garbage that shows up on op-ed pages these days is full of it, and I'm not just talking about Ann Coulter.
Power-hungry telecoms learn the art of astroturfing
Submitted by yelvington on May 22, 2006 - 5:21pmWriting for PBS, Mark Glaser examines just who's been posting pro-telecom comments on his weblog item titled "Should the government regulate Net neutrality?"
I don't know anybody who has warm, fuzzy feelings for their telephone and cable TV providers, so naturally my bullshit detector goes on red alert whenever I see "citizens" going to bat for them.