Media Minutes looks at five of the top stories of 2008: The FCC proceedings concerning Net Neutrality, the 700 MHz spectrum auction and white spaces; Pentagon propaganda; journalists’ arrests at the RNC; and grassroots media organizing for PEG and LPFM.
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Media Minutes looks at five of the top stories of 2008: The FCC proceedings concerning Net Neutrality, the 700 MHz spectrum auction and white spaces; Pentagon propaganda; journalists’ arrests at the RNC; and grassroots media organizing for PEG and LPFM.
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Media Minutes 1-2-09
Producers – Stevie Converse & Candace Clement
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2008 Top Stories
Intro: This week, Media Minutes looks at five of the top stories of 2008.
Open Internet Rules Gain Ground
The fight for the free and open Internet took a big step forward at the FCC in August. In a landmark decision that was called “a bellwether case for the future of the Internet," a bipartisan majority at the agency forced Comcast to stop blocking and publicly disclose its methods for interfering with lawful Internet traffic.
Comcast blocked legal peer-to-peer content by sending fake signals that cut off the connection between file-sharers. The FCC vote followed a months-long investigation launched in response to a legal complaint filed by Free Press and Public Knowledge.
The FCC held a series of hearings on Comcast's blocking, including one at Harvard University, where the company was...
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