A recent federal court case has opened up the door to PBS properties airing political ads. This, of course, has the authoritarian group, Free Press, all upset. Notes this Hill piece: [A Free Press spokesperson] said viewers rightly consider public stations a refuge from political debate, and are not interested in seeing the firewall breached. [...]
QUOTE from blogger Guido Fawkes aka Paul Staines: Operation Motorman uncovered industrial scale criminality and hundreds of suspects’ names. Currently in Britain the newspapers are neither naming nor shaming because the criminal enterprises are the newspapers themselves, who understandably do not wish to report their own crimes. Their silence is a matter of self-preservation.QUOTE: In [...]
The leadership for a voluntary industry plan to reduce online piracy was announced yesterday. The plan – known as the 6-Strikes graduated response plan and / or copyright alert system (CAS) – will be headed by techpol insider, Jill Lesser. The CAS – which first seeks to educate, scold, and then “punish” file-sharing scofflaws – [...]
WITH THANKS to Alex Perrottet of Pacific Media Watch:The death of King George Tupou V was unexpected for all – especially for family and close friends.Neil Underhill is an Honorary Correspondent for the British government to King Tupou V. He is also a close personal friend.Born in Fiji, he has lived most of his life [...]
Money is not speech when it comes to politics and elections – so the liberal rant goes. As media reform activists, Free Press, like to put it: Indeed, the more money one has to give, the more power and influence one can exert over elections and public policy. Of course, if you’re a liberal / [...]
The picture of the conference … PINA manager Matai Akauola and Taimi Media Network publisher Kalafi Moala having a quiet word about the future. Photo: David RobieWHETHER it was the 21st birthday (as celebrated by the cake at a gala dinner) or 40th anniversary (as flagged by a former president in the opening speech notes), [...]
CNET Reports today that: On Thursday the White House and the Federal Trade Communications unveiled the “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” which will serve as a policy outline for future legislation and public policy that will work to protect consumers’ privacy while online from a computer or mobile phone. The administration also worked with online [...]
Opinion by Dr Crosbie WalshTHERE are indications of panic in the anti-blog newsrooms. Despite their efforts to liken the Fiji dictatorship to the military dictatorship in Burma, there have been no protest marches or public immolestations. Ordinary Fijians seem to be going about their daily lives in normal ways.From the perspective of the anti-blogs, things [...]
You may know that Comcast recently announced a new service package that would stream Comcast (Xfinity) movies to Xbox 360 customers, with that relationship sitting outside of the data caps imposed by the carrier. Notes Carl Bode: The lynch pin of Comcast’s argument is that the Xbox 360 is little more than another set top [...]
The story headline – Google in New Privacy Probes – seems to be a recurring theme for the company. Recidivists have a way of doing the same things over and over. Just ask Scott Cleland, who has well documented Google’s privacy slip-ups (by his count, 35 privacy scandals). This is a classic line within the [...]