The firms doing the spinning for some of the financial meltdown's biggest players have good reason to be worried. Their crimes, after all, went largely unnoticed.
The Google/YouTube merger is more than a big media deal: It's the leading edge of a data-driven marketing system that will subvert the Internet as we know it.
The public outcry over the Sinclair controversy underscores the need not just to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, but to expand its application to include new and emerging technologies.
The proposed FCC ruling will allow mergers and acquisitions that will increase corporate profits at the public's expense. But it is no coincidence that the American people don't know about it.
Despite widespread protests and the Clear Channel debacle, the FCC is about to make it easier for the nation's biggest media conglomerates grow ever larger.
Unless progressives devise a strategy to shape the emerging digital marketplace, they may find themselves locked into a media system that once again marginalizes dissent.
The latest FCC ruling allowing the AT&T-Comcast merger will create a new media behemoth monopoly over cable and internet affecting millions of Americans.
The FCC plans to implement new rules that will dramatically undermine media diversity in content and ownership. But there is still time for the public to take action.
As front-page stories gush over the accomplishments of Gerald Levin, AOL Time Warner’s CEO, his retirement has obscured the more negative part of his legacy.
Before we rush headlong into a new series of deregulatory moves, we must look at how they will affect journalism and the flow of information to the public.
A champion of "open access" -- the policy that will keep the internet free and democratic -- explains why the impending merger between AOL and Time Warner has run into trouble, who is fighting for and against it, and what it all means for the future of the World Wide Web.
Still in its infancy, broadband Internet delivery may revolutionize the media world. Can it help build an online environment that serves the public interest as effectively as it meets the expectations of Wall Street?
