Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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The stuff coming through on the FreePress daily update about media matters is full of how little info we have about the Comcast Brouhaha, and how to that their “network management” is more like “competitor blocking”. Bennett keeps spewing about it on WetMachine as well, saying that Topolsky & Co really haven’t proven anything. That’s […]

If you are fence sitting on doing your part to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, and, more importantly, fence sitting on pushing your congresscritters to pass MUCH MORE STRINGENT legislation to make sure Corporations and Government do their part, you need to read the blogpost over at TomGram, which also includes an article by Bill […]

I knew there was a reason I threw out my TV ten years ago. Yesterday I was over a friend’s house and he had the news on, I’m not sure which network, but some talking heads were discussing how Obama is “off his game” and how Hillary still has a shot. The conversation went on […]

The major media attention being paid to the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay is, as usual, putting a lot of attention on YouTube and MySpace.
From a recent NY Times article on the prosecution of the 8 kids who were indicted in the beating:

“For whatever reason, this MySpace, my-you, this YouTube has gone too far,” said […]

Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my mind, because it’s so true, […]

The only Big Media outlet giving the Torture Memo any play is the New York Times, which is the BEST argument going for not letting Wall Street into their Boardroom. Wall Street has benefitted ridiculously from Bush and Company’s wholesale deregulation and resultant bailout after the predictable meltdown it caused, and Big Media outlets owned […]

Om Malik is reporting a MAJOR investment by the USDA in a mystery company called Open Range Communications. The company secured USDA financing to the tune of $267 million for the purpose of rolling out BroadBand to Rural Areas. This announcement comes fast on the heels of two other news events– the wrapup of the […]

How much you wanna bet there are a bunch of former AT&T and Verizon Legal Weenies out there looking for work, since they missed the Devil in the Details that allows Wireless Microphones to operate in that UHF Spectrum Range they just spent Megabucks by the tractor trailer full to purchase? Wet Machine has the […]

At the Congressional Hearing on March 11, it was very obvious that outside of the halls of Congress, Net Neutrality and Internet Free Speech is very much a Bipartisan Issue. PCMag covered the Net Neutrality hearing, which resulted in this incredible quote by Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition, “The Christian Coalition and NARAL agree […]