Comments on: Blogher Women still don’t GET it. Broadband and Media Issues off their list

By: bj

bj — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:33 +0000

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19389299/site/newsweek/page/0/

I might also point out that the OECD study came out almost three months ago, and only after the blogosphere blasted it from one corner of the globe to the other did US Big Media finally pick up on (the surface of) it, though little has been said about the upcoming Once In A LifeTime Spectrum Auction that could, if it’s run by rules that don’t favor the incumbents as past auctions did, break the back of the broadband duopoly.

By: bj

bj — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:32:32 +0000

I’m aware of the fact that there are two different lists. I was given a choice of choosing one of the above as the TOP issue and one as the SECOND next most important issue. If I don’t see any of those issues that I was given a choice of as being more important than Broadband and Media Policy, and Broadband and Media Policy aren’t even on that initial list, then there’s noplace else for me to go. I understood the wording just fine.

Re an issue being *global* I’d say that having the freedom to communicate with the rest of the globe and knowing what’s going on in the rest of the world is about as global as you can get.

By: Elisa Camahort

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:42:03 +0000

I feel I should point out there are two different lists of issues that people are being asked to vote on.

The first issue group is the one you publish here, which is about finding a single *global* (i.e. non-U.S.-centric) issue that the BlogHer community can rally around for the next year.

If you look at question #13, however, that is where we ask what issues we want the U.S. presidential candidates and the media to focus on for the 2008 presidential election. On that list is Iraq, Media reform, Internet Neutrality, Access and Freedom, and yes, Global Warming.

So, I think perhaps our survey wording didn’t make it clear there were two different sections to the survey, but if you had read a little further in the survey you would have found nearly all your issues listed.

Hope maybe you’ll give it another try?