Broadcasters make billions in profits while using the public airwaves for free. In return, they are supposed to provide programming that fulfills community needs. Instead, lobbyists have successfully fought to make it easier for broadcast companies to gobble up even more free airspace while doing less to serve the public. Access to high-speed Internet service — also known as broadband — has become a basic public necessity, just like water or electricity. Yet despite its importance, broadband access in the United States is far from universal.
Meanwhile, cable and phone companies — which hold virtual monopolies over the infrastructure of the Internet — often refuse to build out high-speed broadband to regions that need it most, and actively seek to block communities from seeking their own broadband solutions.
Consolidation has contributed to tough times for the newspaper industry. When the industry was swimming in profits in the s, big media companies used 14—27 percent profit margins to buy up other properties rather than invest in the quality of their existing products or innovate for the future.
Now they want to make it possible for a given company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market. As these companies try to steer us to their increasingly closed versions of the Internet — and to marketers who benefit from mining our personal information — we must fight for policies that protect our rights as Internet users.
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Pandemi Harian Covid Menu Ganti ke. Informasi Semuanya. Pendaftaran Online. Permintaan Brosur - Gratis. Lamanya Studi. Referensi Penting. The BBC, more than any other media organisation, found itself being shot by both sides, usually a good sign for journalists. Would I come on Press TV and say that? Fine, I said, eager to get back to watching Christopher Hitchens pointing at cars. Presently a car arrived to take me to the Press TV studio in west London.
The driver and I chatted about Obama: momentous occasion We arrived at the studio, a smallish space on a light industrial estate. I was buzzed into reception, where a giant portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini stared down at me. There was a thick lingering cloud of cigarette smoke, which was odd, as smoking in the workplace had been made illegal 18 months previously.
John Rees of the Stop The War Coalition emerged from the studio: we nodded politely as he made for the exit. Thank you for coming. You will say that BBC is biased towards Israel, yes? Well, no. I explained to him what I had told the researcher, that I thought the BBC was not biased either way and was doing good work in difficult circumstances. He looked perplexed. It was a black box of a space, with a bank of TV screens on one side, and a small desk with a microphone.
This, in itself, is not unusual. What was different was this: normally, or at least often, there is a TV screen, showing the studio you are being fed into, and an earpiece linking you to them.
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