Michael Copps, a longtime Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, says he's retiring by year's end. Copps, a vocal critic of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- Everyone is used to seeing a flood of political advertising, whether they are vicious attack ads or saccharine puff pieces, in the month...
The Media Consortium | Posted 06.18.2011
By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Four months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supposedly settled the issue, the battle ove...
Posted 06.01.2011
(Reuters) - The wireless megamerger of AT&T Inc (T.N) and T-Mobile will be a tough sell, said the senior Democrat at the U.S. Federal Communications...
Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite what some politicians and pundits are saying, the FCC's vote on net neutrality is neither a government takeover of the Internet nor a complete sell-out to the telecommunications industry.
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011
Robert McDowell, a Republican FCC commissioner, penned a blistering critique of the FCC's net neutrality plan in an opinion editorial published in the...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
In one swoop, Genachowski is poised to break Obama's promise and give the Internet away to big corporations like Comcast, to block and discriminate and extort as they see fit.
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
In FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' letter to the editor in the Washington Post, he not only savaged the Post editorial about Internet policy, but noted the cruel reality of his agency.
Craig Aaron | Posted 05.25.2011
As I told the FCC on Friday, the discussion about public media's future in the digital age comes at a critical juncture: We have a crisis. We have an historic opportunity. And we shouldn't let either go to waste.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
Two recent videos make a clear cut case for media reform in the digital age, and should be fixtures on the virtual shelf of anyone interested in the issue.
Posted 05.25.2011
Net netrality won't be achieved "without a fight," according to FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. Copps discusses open internet with Bill Moyers in a...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
To hear the industry and their lackeys, one would think the government not only is regulating the Internet, but also taking it over. The fact is, both before the FCC acts and after, private industry will still own what it owns.
Deborah Douglas | Posted 05.25.2011
Can you image what TV might look like if it looked like the people who watch it, often in higher proportions than the people being targeted by an overwhelming white, male corps of writers?
Sue Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011
22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
As the first African-American woman commissioner, she represents progressive change that is deeply in sync with the transformation of D.C. politics that Obama is trying to realize.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton could play the heavy with the Israeli government (for once) and demand that it makes serious concessions toward creating an independent Palestinian state.
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 05.25.2011
Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps asked FCC chairman Kevin Martin to open an inquiry into News Corp.'s purchase of The...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 02.05.2012