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Moyers on America "The Net at Risk", October 18th, 2006 -- Teletruth experts featured.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:30:06 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: October 12, 2006 4:48:05 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Moyers on America "The Net at Risk", October 18th, 2006 -- Teletruth experts featured.
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This item comes from friend Bruce Kushnick. DLH] Teletruth News Alert. Moyers on America Presents "The Net at Risk". PBS, (check local listings) Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 9PM, EDTTeletruth's Bruce Kushnick and Tom Allibone are featured in "The New Digital
Divide" segment. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neutrality.html Moyers on America presents a new, serious investigative analysis of the future of broadband, the Net and media --- from municipalities trying to Wifi or rewire their cities, to the large phone companies who claim that they 'own-the net' or large media concerns who have the power to take control of the information and stories you see and hear. The program has been divided into four segments. THE NET AT RISK "The debate is hot, the language heady, the metaphors many. Op-ed pages alternately bemoan "The End of the Internet" or curse "Net Neutrality Nonsense." THE NEW DIGITAL DIVIDE http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/usworld.htmlTeletruth is featured. Check out the video --- "In Korea and Japan customers
are getting 100 Mbps services in both directions for about $40 bucks" - (That's 100 times faster than America's DSL services.) "America's screwed," says Bruce Kushnick, a telecom analyst. "I mean, we basically are becoming technologically deficient. We're close to thedinosaurs compared to what these other countries are going to be developing
in the next couple years." Other sections include: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/community.html"The Net @ Risk" takes viewers to Lafayette, Louisiana, where residents and officials took on their phone company, BellSouth, and their cable company, Cox Communications, and built their own high-speed fiber network after the
firms refused to bring true broadband connections to their community." BIG AND BIGGER MEDIA http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/bigger.html"In 1984 the number of companies owning a controlling interest in America's media was 50 - today that number is six. Critics of media consolidation say it has led to fewer and fewer perspectives being presented -- and a marked
decrease in local news coverage."Teletruth believes America's digital future is at stake, not to mention the
future of the U.S. economy. We are pleased to be part of this important investigative report. More: Read Teletruth's series for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog project on telecommunications, the Internet, wireless and broadband.<http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm? fuseaction=about.viewContributor&bioid=130>
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