Blogs

  • Want to Stream Events from Sochi? You Better Have Cable.

    Jenn Topper
    February 7, 2014
    As in 2012, to watch the Olympics, you have to be either a cable or satellite-TV customer. NBC is again refusing to give Internet customers the option to purchase stand-alone Web access.

  • The End of the Internet as We Know It

    Jenn Topper
    December 12, 2013
    We owe everything we love about the Web to Net Neutrality. Without Net Neutrality, the Web would look a lot like cable, with the most popular content available only on certain tiers or with certain providers.

  • CBS Is the Poster Child for Conflicts of Interest

    Josh Stearns
    Jenn Topper
    November 14, 2013
    This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes offered a tepid apology and half correction for its flawed reporting on the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. The story, which aired in October, centered on a key witness, Dylan Davies, whose account of the attacks has since been discredited.
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In the News

  • Something's Happening to Local News

    Baltimore Sun
    November 7, 2013

    So far this year, 223 local TV stations have changed hands. This is the biggest wave of media consolidation ever — and it's all happening in small and mid-level markets, involving companies most people have never heard of.

  • AT&T Won't Let Man FaceTime His Kids, So He's Taking It to the Feds

    Business Insider
    October 18, 2012

    AT&T is blocking longtime customers with unlimited data plans from using a cool new feature available on the latest iPhones: FaceTime video chat over 3G and 4G wireless networks. One of those customers, an architect living in San Francisco, has filed a complaint with the FCC.