• A New Tool for Putting Net Neutrality on the Map

    Megan Tady
    December 14, 2009

    The question isn’t who’s been naughty and who’s been nice this holiday season. It’s who’s supporting Net Neutrality, and who isn’t?

  • ACLU: Setting the Record Straight on Net Neutrality

    Jay Stanley
    December 14, 2009

    The cable industry is saying that Network Neutrality would violate the First Amendment because it would prohibit them from “expressing themselves” by distorting the flow of information over the Internet wires they control.

  • A Brand New Gouge for the Same Crappy Service

    Josh Levy
    December 11, 2009

    Seriously, AT&T. This is nuts.

    Millions of AT&T customers have been griping about your service from the moment they were forced to join your network to use their iPhones. Complaints run from consistently dropped voice calls to slow and erratic data speeds to a lack of service in huge swaths of the country. Did I mention dropped calls? Can you hear me never?

  • The Battle to Access Information Online

    Michael Burger
    December 11, 2009

    There is a silent battle occurring in Washington, D.C., over our ability to freely access and exchange information through our last unbiased medium, the Internet. The telecom industry is feverishly buying up policy-makers in an attempt to block new, unanimously approved FCC regulations on Internet service providers.

  • Cable Industry Confused: It's Not Their First Amendment, But Ours

    Marvin Ammori
    December 11, 2009

    The cable and phone industry keep making the offensive argument that the First Amendment belongs to them, not you--and that the First Amendment empowers them to stifle your online speech just so they can make more money.

  • Young Entrepreneurs Rely on the Open Internet

    Matthew Rosenberg
    December 10, 2009

    As a young owner of a small business -- a New York-based startup company called onebluebrick -- I rely on an open Internet, and I’ve experienced firsthand what will happen if Net Neutrality is not preserved.

  • Celebrating the Life of C. Edwin Baker

    Josh Stearns
    December 10, 2009

    We at SaveTheNews.org and Free Press learned today that the eminent communications law scholar C. Edwin Baker died this week at the age of 62. Baker was a passionate defender of the First Amendment and a longtime advocate for media and democracy.

    Baker took part in the early planning meetings before SaveTheNews.org was launched, and his ideas have helped to shape much of our work. Robert McChesney and John Nichols, the co-founders of Free Press, offered remembrances of Baker.

  • Considering Personalization, Privacy, Advertsing and Commerce

    Bill Densmore
    December 10, 2009

    Bill Densmore is Vice President, Director & Co-Founder, CircLabs Inc. The following is an excerpt of his remarks delivered at the Federal Trade Commission’s “News Media Workshop” held on December 1 and 2, 2009.

    The defining challenge for news organizations in the 21st century is no longer managing proprietary information, but helping the public manage our attention to ubiquitous information. In less than a decade, we have moved from a world of relative information scarcity -- access restricted by a variety of technical choke points -- such as presses -- to a world of such information abundance that the average user's challenge is not how to access information, or even how find it, but how to personalize and make sense of it.

  • The Internet is Neither the Problem nor the Solution

    Andrew Jay Schwartzman
    December 9, 2009

    Andrew Jay Schwartzman is President & Chief Executive Officer of the Media Access Project. The following is an excerpt of his remarks delivered at the Federal Trade Commission’s “News Media Workshop” held on December 1 and 2, 2009. Read his full FTC comments here.

    The Internet is neither the problem nor the solution, but it is a central part of the future of journalism. Cutbacks in journalism predate the Internet, and have been driven by the incessant demands of Wall Street for short-term results and ever-greater rates of return.

  • Comcast Merger Bad for Consumers, Free Press and Parents Television Council Say

    Megan Tady
    December 8, 2009

    While Comcast and industry groups want us to think that their mega-media merger is good for business, we’re reminding everyone that it’s a bad deal for consumers.

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