From the same people who brought you Fear Factor, Temptation Island and When Animals Attack! comes one of the most-shocking-but-true stories of hubris, greed and endless griping imaginable.

This is a tale of the vastly powerful but sniveling giants who control your TV, dictate much of our political discourse and...

Yesterday I was as close to Ryan Seacrest as I'll probably ever get. I was quoted in a story in the New York Times about rumors Seacrest might succeed Matt Lauer as host of Today on NBC. The celebrity beat is not my normal bailiwick, but the Seacrest...

As a senator, Barack Obama fought to prevent greater media consolidation.

In 2007, he opposed a vote by the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission to lift the ban on allowing one company to own a daily newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market.

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Today the Senate voted down a dangerous resolution that would have shuttered the open Internet.

Good riddance. This outrageous measure would have stripped us of our right to communicate freely online and handed control of the Internet to companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon.

But the

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is preparing to make a big announcement on Thursday. It's sure to be filled with platitudes about the benefits of broadband and boosting the economy. But the devil, as always, will be in the details.

And that's how we'll know whether the FCC...

Today the Justice Department filed suit to block AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile.

In announcing the suit, Sharis Pozen, the DoJ's top antitrust enforcer, said, "Any way you look at it, this deal is anti-competitive." We at Free Press couldn't agree more. And for once, policymakers put the law...

Are we still talking about this whole phone-hacking scandal at News Corp.? That's such old news.

Tapping into the voicemails of major political figures and murder victims? Everybody did it. Top executives at one of the...

Last week the public was dismayed and disgusted by news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker was leaving her government job to lobby on behalf of the Comcast-NBC colossus whose merger she had just approved.

Seattle's Reel Grrls -- an award-winning nonprofit group that trains teenage girls in making their...

MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and Free Press delivered more than 1 million letters on Capitol Hill today to demonstrate to Congress that any effort to defund NPR, PBS and other public media goes against the will of the American people.

Earlier this month, a public opinion poll found that...

How appropriate that the Federal Communications Commission has picked the darkest day of the year to vote on its new Net Neutrality rules. Unless they are dramatically improved at the 11th hour, the FCC's proposal will go down as one of the bleakest moments in the history of...

The fight over Net Neutrality -- that fundamental principle that keeps the Internet open and free from discrimination -- can get pretty wonky.

It's sometimes hard to find the right words when you're trying to communicate to policymakers, geeks and the general public at the same time. How do crucial...

Surely most of you are familiar with the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- that heartwarming classic where Jimmy Stewart exploits arcane Senate procedure to challenge political corruption and shady inside deals.

There's a sequel playing out now in D.C., with a real-life Mr. Smith, but it's...

Ever have to negotiate a contract or try to sell a used car?

Would you start the give-and-take by naming the lowest price you're willing to accept and then try to get a better deal?

Of course not. Yet somehow, that's the exact "strategy" the Obama administration seems intent on...

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear," which packed the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, wasn't exactly what I anticipated. I came expecting laughs and mockery -- and, sure, that was part of it -- but instead found myself in the middle of a massive...

The fight over net neutrality is red hot right now. Since news broke that Google and Verizon were hatching a plan to carve up the Internet, millions have woken up to the fact that the Internet is in jeopardy and the would-be watchdogs at the Federal Communications Commission...

So Google and Verizon went public today with their "policy framework" -- better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.

News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that's seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users

Joe Barton is really, really sorry.

The Texas congressman made headlines today for publicly apologizing to oil giant BP for what he called a government "shakedown" against the company; the government is asking BP to pay into a fund for those harmed by the disastrous Gulf oil spill....

On Friday night, the great Bill Moyers signed off for the last time on his weekly PBS series. His departure was no surprise, but the broadcasting legend's absence marks a turning point for public broadcasting and quality journalism in America.

"I can think of no journalist, now or...

Perhaps you've heard about this issue of "Net Neutrality." Doesn't ring a bell?

Maybe you know it as "Internet socialism," "the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet," or simply the cornerstone of the Obama administration's frightening "vision of government ownership and control" over all communications and...

Last week, I was invited to speak at the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture conference in Boston. This organization of media and arts leaders represents hundreds of thousands of community media centers, arts educators, artists and filmmakers. Here's some of what I told NAMAC about the importance...