how do the new FCC rules really stack up?
If you’re still unclear about how the new FCC rules will affect online publishing, the Online Publishers Association has clarified it a bit in its recent weekly newsletter. They also provide links to cogent analysis from reports at CNET news.com, Wired News, Salon, Shirky.com, Online Journalism Review, and Media Life. If you’ve been missing out on the debate, here’s a synopsis culled from Alternet. And the way I see it, it’s not a very good thing. If media is in the hands of the few, then won’t we just get the same news, information, and entertainment all the time. Capitalism, I tell ya’. I want my free media. Sounds like it’s high time for bloggers to rise up. Anyway, here’s the Alternet lead-in paragraph from “TECHSPLOITATION: FCC and Anti-FCC,” by Annalee Newitz: “Everyone from feminists in the National Organization for Women to gun-lovers at the National Rifle Association has been protesting the recent Federal Communications Commission decision to change the way it regulates media
