If you get involved in just one cause this year, let it be the fight against having your Internet access strangled. Because if you don't fight for this one, you will never be able to access the websites for others.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Because they're bankrolling astroturf behind a fig leaf of "public relations," large corporations aren't legally required to disclose the lion's share of their funding of these fake grassroots groups.
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
These fake grassroots groups have scored some amazing successes. Working together with lobbyists and a pack of sputtering media pundits, they've bullied Washington's timid leadership.
Russia Today | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The case of an Indian student jailed in the U.S. more than three years ago, is being seen as a major test of America's human rights. A jury found Vik...
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
On Sept. 28, the paper printed a full-fledged editorial against Net Neutrality without revealing to readers that the Washington Post Co. has an economic incentive to block online speech.
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology
What does the debate over Net Neutrality have in common with a zombie horror flick? As the phone and cable companies send out a brainless horde of shills and lobbyists, it's not hard to make the connection.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
The fight for Net Neutrality just took a big step forward on Monday with the chair of the Federal Communications Commission announcing plans to expand the rules to protect a free and open Internet.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media
The ultimate irony of Beck, Dobbs and Rush is that they couch in populist rhetoric a message that is anti-populist, designed to protect the swindle at the core of our media system's failure.
Sue Wilson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media
It is clear that the "right" has been quietly assembling troops and is now mounting their attack, an attack largely unanticipated by media reformers.
Craig Aaron | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
There's going to be a second stimulus package at some point. And when it comes, we need to make sure it's not just an economic stimulus. It should be a creativity stimulus, too.
Josh Silver | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Kurtz asserts that the journalism crisis is not a political issue, but the result of economic and technological forces alone. If only that were true.
Timothy Karr | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 establishes the basic rules of the road for an open Internet. Its arrival couldn't be more timely -- we must act to pass this bill.
Timothy Karr | Posted 09.01.2009 | Media
As millions of users are opting to upgrade to Internet-enabled "smart phones," carriers have begun blocking access to applications and the free-flowing Web by controlling what these phones can and can't do.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
Two years ago, I had a personal epiphany at the Personal Democracy Forum: New media could change everything... From communications to politics to culture. At PDF '09: more revelations.
Timothy Karr | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
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.
Timothy Karr | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
The open Internet's power cuts both ways: The tools that organize and empower people can also be used to target them. Companies that profit from this technology need to be held to a higher standard.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Neither September 11th or the worst economic downturn in history has managed to snap people out of their dreamlike delusions of why we should continue the quest to mediocrity.
Timothy Karr | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Journalism is in crisis around the country, but selling access to reporters and editors to the highest bidder (as the Washington Post did) should never be an option.
Timothy Karr | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media
Expect Chairman Genachowski to turn his attention to bringing more choice to a broadband market controlled by a cartel of phone and cable companies.
Timothy Karr | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
We are at the dawn of the era of a true mobile Internet but cell carriers are still playing gatekeepers to the next generation of innovation. Imagine what the new iPhone would be if we only set it free.
AP | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A Sri Lankan press freedom campaigner and government critic was abducted and assaulted while returning from work Monday. Po...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
How involved was the United States State Department in the destabilization of the Kivu provinces in eastern DRC? Did our State Department officials become "terrorists" in the eyes of a revolutionary movement in Congo?
AP | RACHEL JONES | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years aft...
Timothy Karr | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
ISPs have stuck consumers with higher prices and slower speeds, while repeatedly threatening to throttle the free and open Internet. And our elected and appointed officials have let this happen.
Committee to Protect Journalists | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
New York, April 30, 2009--With a military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for years for posting critical mater...
Justine Bateman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media