By Claire Cain Miller and Miguel Helft, NY Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Verizon on Monday introduced a proposal for how Internet service should be regulated — and were immediately criticized by groups that favor keeping the network as open as possible.

Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief. “The next two people in a garage really do [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, spoke on a May 20 panel discussion entitled “Can the Government Save the Press?” hosted by the Progress and Freedom Foundation.
Watch the video of the panel discussion at http://www.pff.org/events/Can_Government_Help_Save_the_Press/index.html.

Media Ownership Limits Facing Repeal at the FCC
* Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC
* Newspaper Broadcast Ownership Rule
* Local Radio Ownership Rule
* Local Television Ownership Rule
* Dual Networks Rule

Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC
On September 12, 2002, the FCC started a proceeding to review all the media ownership rules currently in [...]

The following links are just a sampling of the hundreds of websites out there that can answer your questions about the electronic media and telecommunications. Preference was given to “official” websites and the resources we found most useful, accurate, and comprehensive. We hope this can serve as a launching pad from which you can find [...]

h4. “FCC Loosens Ownership Rules”:http://www.mediaaccess.org/file_download/216/2007-12-18-forbes.pdf
*Forbes* Brian Wingfield and Louis Hau: December 18, 2007
bq. “It is hard to understand why the chairman has been so stubborn about pushing through such an extreme and unjustified change in rules which have long protected the public’s right to have access to diverse sources of information,” Media Access Project President [...]

Harold Feld, MAP’s Senior Vice President, will be a panelist at the FTC’s upcoming Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy conference. The conference will bring together experts from business, government, and the technology sector, consumer advocates, and academics to explore competition and consumer protection issues relating to broadband Internet access, including debate on “network neutrality.”
See Harold’s <txp:file_download_link [...]

By Claire Cain Miller and Miguel Helft, NY Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Verizon on Monday introduced a proposal for how Internet service should be regulated — and were immediately criticized by groups that favor keeping the network as open as possible.

Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief. “The next two people in a garage really do [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, spoke on a May 20 panel discussion entitled “Can the Government Save the Press?” hosted by the Progress and Freedom Foundation.
Watch the video of the panel discussion at http://www.pff.org/events/Can_Government_Help_Save_the_Press/index.html.

Media Ownership Limits Facing Repeal at the FCC
* Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC
* Newspaper Broadcast Ownership Rule
* Local Radio Ownership Rule
* Local Television Ownership Rule
* Dual Networks Rule

Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC
On September 12, 2002, the FCC started a proceeding to review all the media ownership rules currently in [...]

The following links are just a sampling of the hundreds of websites out there that can answer your questions about the electronic media and telecommunications. Preference was given to “official” websites and the resources we found most useful, accurate, and comprehensive. We hope this can serve as a launching pad from which you can find [...]

h4. “FCC Loosens Ownership Rules”:http://www.mediaaccess.org/file_download/216/2007-12-18-forbes.pdf
*Forbes* Brian Wingfield and Louis Hau: December 18, 2007
bq. “It is hard to understand why the chairman has been so stubborn about pushing through such an extreme and unjustified change in rules which have long protected the public’s right to have access to diverse sources of information,” Media Access Project President [...]

Harold Feld, MAP’s Senior Vice President, will be a panelist at the FTC’s upcoming Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy conference. The conference will bring together experts from business, government, and the technology sector, consumer advocates, and academics to explore competition and consumer protection issues relating to broadband Internet access, including debate on “network neutrality.”
See Harold’s <txp:file_download_link [...]