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Free Speech Champion Christopher Hitchens Dies
Amy Kroin
December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens was a master at offending just about everybody in the room.

Hitchens, who died Thursday from complications related to cancer, first earned his literary stripes as a political firebrand on the left. No cow was too sacred for Hitchens, an atheist who excoriated organized religion in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything — and lambasted the previously untouchable Mother Teresa in The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. A longtime lefty, Hitchens alienated his former compatriots when he switched gear in the early aughts and defended the United States invasion of Iraq.
Sen. Kerry Speaks Out for Net Neutrality
Amy Kroin
November 4, 2011
Sen. John Kerry — a longtime Net Neutrality champion — today sent out a letter to his Senate colleagues urging them to vote “no” on an upcoming resolution of disapproval that would wreck our ability to communicate online.
Can Ink-Stained Fingers Boost Your Wow Factor?
Amy Kroin
October 28, 2011
Ladies, keep the Manolo Blahniks in the closet; gents, don’t worry about squeezing into those True Religion jeans. The next time you want to make an entrance at your watering hole of choice, the only accessory you’ll need is a newspaper.

Or so goes the logic over at the Newspaper Association of America, whose new advertising campaign bears the tagline “Smart is the new sexy.”
How Low Will AT&T Go?
Amy Kroin
October 18, 2011
Rev. R. Henry Martin directs the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, a Louisiana-based ministry that “reaches out to feed, clothe, shelter and provide healing services to homeless men, women and families with children.” The ministry aided 1,200 people in 2010, served over 135,000 meals and is open to those in need 365 days a year.
Where AT&T Money Goes, Merger Support Follows
Amy Kroin
September 28, 2011
Less than a week after seven attorneys general joined the Justice Department suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, 10 other attorneys general threw their support behind AT&T.
Rupert, Is That You?
Amy Kroin
September 19, 2011
Leonard Nimoy made a cameo as the “president of television” in the opening segment of Fox’s Emmys broadcast. The Star Trek veteran was a pinch hitter for Alec Baldwin, who played the role in the skit’s original incarnation — and then walked when Fox cut a line about its parent company, News Corp., and the phone-hacking scandal.
AT&T Accidentally Tells Truth, Shoots Self in Foot
Amy Kroin
August 16, 2011
Free Press and other opponents of the AT&T–T-Mobile merger had reason to cheer last week when a damning document AT&T filed with the FCC was accidentally posted on a public site.
The FCC Coddles and AT&T Throttles
Amy Kroin
August 4, 2011
The FCC has taken to heart the maxim “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” allowing AT&T another chance to prove that its proposed purchase of T-Mobile is a bang-up idea.

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