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What Comcast hath wrought
According to this, C-SPAN is carrying the Democratic caucuses, and C-SPAN2 is hanging with the Republicans. So if you’re a Comcast customer — at least in my blighted suburb — you can watch the...
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Comcast paranoia
As many of you know, Comcast is in the process of messing things up even more than it normally does. Weirdly enough, on Friday night the signal coming out of our ancient, coal-powered Airport base...
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Comcast never sleeps
Last Sunday I posted a paranoid lament about Media Nation’s wireless- network problems, and wondered whether Comcast’s forced march to digital might somehow be responsible. As it turned out, my issues...
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The closing of the Internet*
Imagine you are trying to start a news site in your community. Your competitor, part of a national chain, offers instant-on, full-screen HD video and a host of other data-intensive features that load...
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Now it’s the Times versus Google and Verizon
For now, at least, it looks like the New York Times is doubling down on its report that Google and Verizon are negotiating a deal that would allow Verizon to offer tiered levels of service for...
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O’Reilly called Nolan’s protest “outrageous”
Barry Nolan Two years ago, the Phoenix newspapers bestowed one of their annual Muzzle Awards on Comcast for firing Barry Nolan, the Boston-based host of “Backstage,” which appeared locally on CN8....
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The Times takes on Barry Nolan v. Bill O’Reilly
Keith Olbermann Brian Stelter of the New York Times weighs in on the matter of Barry Nolan versus Bill O’Reilly, quoting me while so doing. Here is what I wrote for the Boston Phoenix about Comcast’s...
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Veteran journalist Charles Kravetz to run WBUR
Charles Kravetz Public radio station WBUR (90.9 FM) has chosen veteran television journalist Charles Kravetz as its new general manager, replacing Paul La Camera, who recently announced his retirement....
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What’s next in the cable news wars
Rachel Maddow Three quick hits on the continued fallout over Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC: 1. It looks like MSNBC’s response has been to give promotions to everyone rather than consider what...
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Net neutrality and the future of journalism
This article was originally published by the media-reform organization Free Press and is posted here by permission. Josh Stearns is the journalism and public media campaign director for Free Press. You...
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Comcastic news for free speech
This broke at Bloomberg and is now being confirmed: In the face of opposition from the Justice Department and the FCC, Comcast is giving up on its proposed $45.2 billion merger with Time Warner Cable....
View ArticleAmazon’s move against Parler is worrisome in a way that Apple’s and Google’s...
It’s one thing for Apple and Google to throw the right-wing Twitter competitor Parler out if its app stores. It’s another thing altogether for Amazon Web Services to deplatform Parler. Yet that’s what...
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Don’t censor right-wing disinformation. Just stop making us pay for it.
Photo (cc) 2007 by Jason Eppink Two Democratic members of Congress are asking giant cable providers like Verizon and Comcast some uncomfortable questions about their business dealings with three...
View ArticleDon’t you love Comcast?
Sometime within the past few months, C-SPAN2 and ESPN Classic disappeared from our cable package, which is as basic and non-digital as you can get. This morning I took a walk down to our local Comcast...
View ArticleWhat Comcast hath wrought
According to this, C-SPAN is carrying the Democratic caucuses, and C-SPAN2 is hanging with the Republicans. So if you’re a Comcast customer — at least in my blighted suburb — you can watch the...
View ArticleComcast paranoia
As many of you know, Comcast is in the process of messing things up even more than it normally does. Weirdly enough, on Friday night the signal coming out of our ancient, coal-powered Airport base...
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Comcast never sleeps
Last Sunday I posted a paranoid lament about Media Nation’s wireless- network problems, and wondered whether Comcast’s forced march to digital might somehow be responsible. As it turned out, my issues...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t censor right-wing disinformation. Just stop making us pay for it.
Photo (cc) 2007 by Jason Eppink Two Democratic members of Congress are asking giant cable providers like Verizon and Comcast some uncomfortable questions about their business dealings with three...
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