By Todd Shield & Greg Bensinger, Bloomberg
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) asked regulators to deny AT&T Inc. (T)’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the $39 billion deal would decrease competition and raise consumer prices.
“AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile must be blocked,” Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier, said in comments filed today at the Federal Communications [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2011
Contacts:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman            Chrystiane Pereira
202-454-5681                                   202 454-5683
andys@mediaaccess.org              cpereira@mediaaccess.org
The following is the text of the summary of the Petition to Deny the applications for assignment of control of T-Mobile USA to AT&T Mobility.  Media Access Project will file the petition on May [...]

Warning: today’s item is geeky. It discusses HTC’s announcement that it will stop blocking bootloaders on its smartphones. Huh? This would seem to be something that would only matters to those who knows what it means. As CNET says, “To say that this news only affects a very vocal minority of [...]

Lotsa Facebook news these days. Mark Zuckerberg charms the G-8. The Atlantic Wire lists the Signs That Facebook Is Acting Like a Sovereign Nation. Facebook beefs up its DC and international lobbying presence. But the item which caught RoadMAP’s eye is Mark Zuckerberg’s gaffe (defined as “accidentally saying the truth”) about [...]

RoadMAP is an unabashed fan of Brooke Gladstone, the witty and wise co-host of NPR’s “On The Media.” This week, Slate published two chapters from Brooke’s new comic book on media policy. It, too, is witty and wise. Her thesis is “that the media are not the ‘influencing machine’ of popular imagination, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2010
Prepared for Delivery at Press Briefing Conducted by
John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary
There are plenty of reasons why the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile transaction is bad for competition, bad for consumers and bad for the economy.
One important factor which should convince the Department of Justice and the FCC to [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an excerpt from Daniel Solove’s new book on privacy, “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security.” Solove takes a while to get to his point, but it is a good one. If you think that you have “nothing to hide,” you are viewing [...]

By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times
No political adage gets a more vigorous workout than the one about how the real scandal in Washington isn’t what’s illegal, but what’s legal.
Case in point: Meredith Attwell Baker’s announcement that she will be stepping down as a Federal Communications Commission member in June to join Comcast-NBCUniversal.
Baker’s [...]

For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrew Schwartzman
202.454.5681
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – On Monday, Media Access Project (MAP) announced that its
Associate Director, Matt Wood, will become Policy Director of Free Press, a
nonprofit media reform organization, beginning on June 1.
*Andrew Jay Schwartzman*, MAP Senior Vice President and Policy Director,
issued the following statement:
“Matt has extraordinary talent and an unwavering commitment to the public
interest. [...]

Late Friday afternoon, after most reporters had left for the weekend, the FCC released its Congressionally mandated “706 Report.” The timing of such releases is not accidental; the Commission’s press people know when and how to get attention for announcements, and they know what to do when, as here, they want to minimize attention. [...]