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Monday, June 1, 2009

Cuban on Fragmentation & Attention in the Blogosphere (or Why Power Laws Really Do Govern All Media)

Mark Cuban penned a sharp piece over the weekend entitled "Who Cares What People Write?" in which he explains why people shouldn't get too worked up about what they might read about themselves (or their organizations) online since, chances are, very few people are ever going to see it anyway. To explain why, Cuban identifies two kinds of "Outties" (which is shorthand for someone who publishes on the web): (1) "professional outties" (or "Those that attempt to publish in a limited number of locations to a maximum number of readers or listeners, with a reasonable expectation of building a following.") and (2) "amateur outties" ("Those that attempt to publish in as many places as possible hoping they are "discovered.") But those "amateur outties... really [have] no impact on 99.99pct of the population," Cuban argues, "[and the] vast majority of what is written on the web goes unread and even that which is read, is quickly forgotten." Moreover, "even when something is heavily commented on, it is usually just an onslaught by the 'amateur outties.'"

Thus, Cuban concludes:

Fragmentation applies to 100pct of media. We have gotten to the point where it is so easy to publish to the web, that most of it is ignored. When it is not ignored and it garners attention, the attention is usually from those people, the amateur outties, whose only goal is to create volume on the web in hopes of being noticed.

That's not to say there are no sites that people consume and pay attention to. There obviously are. That's where the "professional outties" come in. They are branded. They have an identity that usually extends beyond the net. They are able to make a living publishing, even if its not much of one. They are the sites that people consume and may possibly remember.

The moral of the story is that on the internet, volume is not engagement. Traffic is not reach. When you see things written about a person, place or thing you care about, whether its positive or negative, take a very deep breath before thinking that the story means anything to anyone but you.

Continue reading Cuban on Fragmentation & Attention in the Blogosphere (or Why Power Laws Really Do Govern All Media) . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:35 PM | Economics, Mass Media

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

On Measuring Technology Diffusion Rates

Via Kevin Kelly I see that at some point Forbes magazine produced this chart measuring technology diffusion rates for various media and communications technologies since their year of inception.
Forbes tech diffusion chart
I found this of great interest because, since the mid-90s, I have been putting together various charts and tables illustrating technological diffusion [most recently I did this in my "Media Metrics" report] and this particular chart is quite challenging since you are forced to pick a "Year 1" date to begin each of the "S curves." For example, what is "Year 1" for electricity or telephony on one hand, or the PC or the Internet on the other? That's not always easy to determine since it is unclear when certain technologies were "born."

Regardless, no matter how you cut it, the more modern and the less regulated the technologies, the quicker they get to market. Here's a couple of my recent charts illustrating that fact. The first shows how long it took before various technologies reached 50% household penetration. The second illustrates the extent of household diffusion over time.


However, as Kevin Kelly notes, we usually never see any technology hit 100% household penetration (although the boob tube got close!):


Continue reading On Measuring Technology Diffusion Rates . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:47 PM | General, Generic Rant, Innovation, Mass Media

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Cutting the (Video) Cord: Two Excellent Washington Post Articles

As part of our ongoing series that tracks the gradual transition of video content to the boob tube to online outlets, I want to draw everyone's attention to two excellent articles in today's Washington Post about this trend. One is by Paul Fahri ("Click, Change: The Traditional Tube Is Getting Squeezed Out of the Picture") and the other by Monica Hesse ("Web Series Are Coming Into A Prime Time of Their Own"). I love the way Paul opens his piece with a look forward at how many of us will be explaining the "old days" of TV viewing to our grand kids:

Sit down, kids, and let Grandpa tell you about something we used to call "watching television."

Why, back when, we had to tune to something called a "channel" to see our favorite programs. And we couldn't take the television set with us; we had to go see it!

Ah, those were simpler times.

Oh, sure, we had some technology we thought was pretty fancy then, too, like your TiVo and your cable and your satellite, which gave us a few hundred "channels" of TV at a time. Imagine that -- just a few hundred! And we had to pay for it every month! Isn't the past quaint, children?

Well, it all started to change around aught-eight, or maybe '09, for sure. That's when you no longer needed a television to watch all the television you could ever want.

Yes, I still remember it like it was yesterday . . .


Too true. Anyway, Paul goes on to document how some folks have already completely made the jump to an online-online TV existence and are doing just fine, although the idea of us all gathering around the tube to share common experiences may be a causality of the migration to smaller screens, he notes.

Continue reading Cutting the (Video) Cord: Two Excellent Washington Post Articles . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:24 AM | Cutting the Video Cord, Mass Media

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Jim Moran, Erectile Dysfunction, and Prudery Disguised as Policy

Grundyism: n. narrow-minded adherence to conventionality; prudery

There cannot be a word more apt to describe the growing zeitgeist among a certain class of would-be censors in Washington. The flash of Janet Jackson's nipple so outraged the FCC that it fined a broadcaster over half a million dollars. A similar sanction was levied for the utterance on television of a word that one will hear echo in the stands at most any live sporting event in America, a word that is commonplace on streets and playgrounds across the country. The prior FCC chairman was so shocked by the relatively uncultured programming on certain cable channels that he waged a four-year war on the cable industry, while the current Acting-Chairman of the FCC has made it no secret that he regards "rampant vulgarity, sexuality and gratuitous violence" to be pervasive in television programming.

For its part, Congress has not been unwilling to put its own delicate sensibilities on display, passing a law to increase the fines that the FCC may assess on broadcasters for airing "indecent" programming. And now the latest attack on broadcasting comes in the form of the "Families for ED Advertising Decency Act," H.R. 2175, introduced by Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA). If passed, H.R. 2175 would make it essentially illegal to run advertisements on broadcast television for medications that treat erectile dysfunction.

One can imagine Congressman Moran and his friends from the Parents Television Council - like grade-school children giggling at the use of words that describe bodily functions - counting the instances in which "erections" are mentioned in a given ad, or debating the Fellini-esque imagery of a man throwing a football through a tire-swing, and becoming enraged by the brazen assault on public morals that ED ads represent.

In truth, such reductive, overly-simplistic analysis (if the term might be stretched to include the blatantly political calculus underlying H.R. 2175) diminishes us as a society, potentially deprives some citizens of important medical information, and may further cripple the broadcasting industry - all under the banner of protecting children from harmful words.

Continue reading Jim Moran, Erectile Dysfunction, and Prudery Disguised as Policy . . .

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 10:34 AM | Capitol Hill, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Monday, March 30, 2009

The Competition for Our Ears

Much ink is spilled over the expanding array of video marketplace choices that are competing for the attention of our eyeballs, but much less is usually written about the competition for our ears. As this excellent new Business Week article by Olga Kharif makes clear, competition and innovation in the audio marketplace has never been more vibrant. It's something I've pointed out here before and here's a chart I created for my Media Metrics report to highlight all the new competition for our ears. We've come a long way since the days of my youth, when transistor radios and vinyl records were the extent of audio competition!

Competition for Our Ears

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:51 AM | Mass Media

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Hypocrisy of Michael Copps

Speaking of socializing media, acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps is someone who has devoted much of his life to regulating the media marketplace into the ground. If he had his way, federal bureaucrats would be controlling virtually every aspect of the media universe. Nothing would get done with Big Nanny's permission.

That's what makes his recent comments about the impact of media regulation so delicious.. and hypocritical. According to an article Bloomberg ran on Thursday, Copps is now saying that, with newspapers struggling to remain afloat, the FCC should now reconsider regulations that prohibit combined ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers. The agency should "visit this whole problem" before long, Copps apparently told Bloomberg.

"Visit this problem before long"?? Please! Congress and the FCC have had opportunities to "visit" and revisit this problem for many years now, but it has been Michael Copps and his merry band of media reformistas who have stopped every reform effort dead in its tracks. (See my essays "Congress Fiddles, Newspapers Burn" and "Media Deregulation is Dead" for more evidence of how these radicals hijacked media policy in this country.) As I documented in my 2005 Media Myths book, these charlatans have used hyperbolic rhetoric, shameless fear-mongering, and unsubstantiated claims in opposition to each and every sensible effort to reform our nation's outdated media ownership policies. Those laws and regulations have created artificial market structures and hindered the ability of media operators to find new business models that might throw them a lifeline in difficult times.

Consider the fact that it was just 14 months ago that then-Commissioner Copps issued this gem of a hysteria-ridden statement in response to the agency's last effort to ever-so-slightly loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross ownership rule:

Continue reading The Hypocrisy of Michael Copps . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:47 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Shall We Save Media by Socializing It?

I've got a new essay up over at the City Journal about John Nichols and Robert McChesney's proposal to have the government heavily subsidize failing media enterprises to "save journalism." It follows below:

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"Socializing Media in Order to Save It"
by Adam D. Thierer
City Journal March 27, 2009

With proposals to nationalize or heavily subsidize various segments of our economy more in vogue than ever, it was probably only a matter of time before someone suggested that America's media marketplace should be brought into the government fold. John Nichols of The Nation and the prolific neo-Marxist media theorist Robert W. McChesney have now provided the road map for media's march to serfdom. The cost to the American taxpayer would be at least $60 billion, but the cost for the First Amendment and our democracy would be incalculable.

Nichols and McChesney have coauthored several books and essays about media policy that view the world through the prism of class struggle, "manufactured consent" (á la Noam Chomsky), and the rest of the typical Marxoid tripe about history and economics. In their view, private, for-profit media cannot be trusted. As they stated in their 2003 call to arms, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, media-reform efforts must begin with "the need to promote an understanding of the urgency to assert public control over the media." "Our claim," they continue, "is simply that the media system produces vastly less of quality than it would if corporate and commercial pressures were lessened."

In a new Nation essay, "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," the authors bring their earlier work to its logical conclusion. Saving journalism, they argue, essentially requires that media become an appendage of the state. Journalism, they claim, is a "public good," which--like education and defense--requires constant government oversight and support: "A moment has arrived at which we must recognize the need to invest tax dollars to create and maintain news gathering, reporting and writing with the purpose of informing all our citizens." They propose that government devote $60 billion to "subscription subsidies, postal reforms, youth media and investment in public broadcasting." Think of it as a "free press 'infrastructure project,'" they say. "It would keep the press system alive. And it has the added benefit of providing an economic stimulus." (Isn't it amazing how everything stimulates the economy these days?)

Continue reading Shall We Save Media by Socializing It? . . .

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:57 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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I Hate To Say "We Told You So" (Part II)

In an interview yesterday, Acting FCC Chairman Copps said that the FCC should "reconsider restrictions on combined ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers as daily publications struggle with a plunge in revenue." This follows a letter from Speaker Pelosi to Attorney General Holder suggesting restrained antitrust review of transactions involving newspaper assets, and a proposal from Senator Cardin (D-MD) for a quasi-government bailout of newspaper firms.

They've all now suddenly discovered that the business model for daily newspapers is under strain and may not be sustainable? Was it the New York Times slouching toward bankruptcy that got their attention, or the failure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer? And what about those claims, made little more than a year ago, by Commissioner Copps that the newspaper business was robust and newspaper profits were double the S&P average?

The sad truth is, the newspaper business has been heading toward a cliff for the last ten years; only willful ignorance can explain the failure of these people who have so recently come to be concerned about the fate of journalism to acknowledge the threat. Time will tell whether their new-found concern has come too late, or whether they have poisoned the political well too thoroughly for any effective policy change.

Indeed, had some of these same people, including Commissioner Copps, worked with then-Chairman Powell six years ago to forge consensus around changes to the structural ownership rules, both the newspaper business and the local broadcasting business (the next shoe to drop, one might well imagine) would be much better positioned to survive and thrive in the new, highly competitive, media marketplace. Instead, they railed about media consolidation and stoked irrational fears of mass mind control by "big media."

In civil society, one might expect an acknowledgment of past error, touched with a hint of shame, and even perhaps an apology for some of the less genteel things that were said of Chairman Powell during the 2003 ownership proceeding. This is Washington, though, where gentlemanly behavior is too much to hope for.

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 8:30 AM | Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Copyrights, UGC Sites and "Fair-Use Bootstrapping"

In the wake of the recent dispute between Warner Music Group and YouTube, much nonsense has been spouted about "fair use" on commercial user-generated-content (UGC) sites. Examples are here and here.

By contrast, the ABA Journal offered a more thoughtful review, but it too overlooked a critical aspect of the evolving relationships between copyright owners and operators of UGC sites like MySpace or YouTube.

Disputes like Warner/YouTube are inevitable (and healthy), but they should not obscure a larger truth: during the past two years, copyright owners and UGC site operators have been cooperating closely and effectively. I have written about the Copyright Principles for UGC Services, and YouTube has pursued similar cooperative measures using internally developed technologies. These efforts are innovative and commendable, and all involved deserve great credit.

Two closely related factors can explain why cooperation and efforts at licensing have predominated in this particular context:

  • First, the § 512(c) safe-harbor for hosting sites prescribes an array of conditions that are intended to make it difficult, particularly in the long run, for a "harbored" hosting service to rely heavily upon infringing or questionable content to generate traffic to its site.
  • Second, most major UGC-site operators are trying to build profitable commercial businesses. Their commercial nature significantly affects eligibility for many copyright limitations or exceptions, including fair use.

Continue reading Copyrights, UGC Sites and "Fair-Use Bootstrapping" . . .

posted by Thomas Sydnor @ 11:30 AM | IP, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

I Hate To Say "We Told You So," But Can't Help Myself

I read a letter today from Speaker Pelosi to Attorney General Holder in which she notes that the media markets have become hyper-competitive, newspapers are struggling to survive, and fundamental First Amendment newsgathering itself is threatened. So what is the Speaker's suggestion to Attorney General Holder? Ease up on that antitrust enforcement a little bit - after all, there newspapers compete with a whole new host of electronic media.

When I read the letter, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. For the uninitiated, I spent the better part of 2002-03 helping to develop, and then publicly defending, a new set of FCC media ownership rules that were intended to . . . wait for it . . . preserve newspapers and broadcast outlets ("traditional media") in an increasingly competitive environment. At the very heart of those rules and my efforts to defend them was the notion that traditional media now are faced with competitive threats from a variety of new media including, most importantly and most dramatically, the Internet. "If you value an independent press," I said on countless occasions, "you had better allow the companies in that business to organize in economically efficient ways so that they can continue to invest in newsgathering and journalism. You can't love reporters without also loving the companies that hire them and pay their salaries."

Continue reading I Hate To Say "We Told You So," But Can't Help Myself . . .

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 3:46 PM | Antitrust, Capitol Hill, Mass Media, The FCC

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Monday, March 2, 2009

This Just in from the "Kick a Man While He's Down" Commission

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 11:11 AM | Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Week the Fairness Doctrine Died

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:48 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Compaine on the Future of Newspapers

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:41 PM | Mass Media

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Ferree: Satellite Video Regulatory Structure Outdated

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 10:25 AM | Capitol Hill, Mass Media

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

When Conservatives Favored the Fairness Doctrine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:09 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Don't Worry about the Fairness Doctrine. No, Wait, Strike That.

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:04 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Wireline

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

CRS Report on History of Fairness Doctrine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:36 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Vertical Dis-integration

posted by Barbara Esbin @ 2:29 PM | Cable, Mass Media, The FCC

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 26): "Information Control" Fantasies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:36 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 25): The Series So Far

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:22 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 24): I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:42 PM | Mass Media

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Of Holiday Gift Guides and New Media Business Models

posted by Adam Marcus @ 10:48 AM | Capitalism, Generic Rant, Innovation, Mass Media

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

George Will on Fairness Doctrine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:57 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Podcast of Fairness Doctrine Discussion on Jim Bohannon Show

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:32 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Podcasts

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Will Traditional OTA Broadcast Networks Go Cable-Exclusive?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:41 AM | Cable, Mass Media, Spectrum

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Cutting the (Video) Cord, Part 2

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:32 PM | Cable, Innovation, Mass Media

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Rosenbaum-Jarvis spat over future of journalism

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:45 AM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Pragmatic (Internet) Optimist's Creed

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:21 PM | Books & Book Reviews, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Book Review: Nick Carr's Big Switch

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:40 PM | Books & Book Reviews, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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There Will Be No Bailout for Old Media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:01 AM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Reason Magazine on What Obama Means for Tech Policy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:02 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Do Irish-Americans Deserve a Satellite Radio Set-Aside?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:42 PM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Remember Newspapers?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:58 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Loud TV Ads: No Need for Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:12 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Book Review: Lee Siegel's Against the Machine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:05 PM | Books & Book Reviews, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

AC/DC Aversion

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 3:21 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, October 10, 2008

MAP in Wonderland

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 7:02 PM | Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Negroponte's "Daily Me" = RSS Feeds + Google Alerts

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:15 PM | Books & Book Reviews, Generic Rant, Innovation, Mass Media

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Cutting the (Video) Cord: The Shift to Online Video Continues

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:44 PM | Broadband, Cable, Economics, Innovation, Mass Media, The FCC

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Friday, October 3, 2008

The Nonsensical World of Washington

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 12:25 PM | Mass Media, The FCC

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

"A Manifesto for Media Freedom" -- my new book with Brian Anderson

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:26 AM | Books & Book Reviews, Campaign Finance Law, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Friday, September 19, 2008

PFF filing in FCC product placement / embedded advertising inquiry

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:41 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Tim Wu on Obama, McCain, and "a Chicken in Every Pot"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:20 PM | Broadband, Cable, Campaign Finance Law, Commons, Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, The FCC

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

"'Local' is just one set of ripples on the lake of information"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:18 PM | Mass Media

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Another 4 months, still no FCC Video Competition Report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:12 PM | Cable, Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 23): Cox Selling Most of its Newspapers

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:45 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Why Google Is a Media Company

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:17 PM | Mass Media

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

What the Media Reformistas Really Want

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:06 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Product Placement in Historical Context

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:22 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Local Web Ads and the Future of Newspapers

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:48 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Felten on The Decline of Localist Broadcasting Policies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:24 PM | Mass Media

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Newspaper Deathwatch?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:29 AM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Media Metrics: The Report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:35 PM | Cable, Economics, Innovation, Mass Media

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Monday, July 14, 2008

The Fig Leaf Removed: Competition, Localism, and Diversity Have Become Nothing More Than a Slogan

posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 9:12 AM | Mass Media, The FCC

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Our Continued Wishful Thinking about "Media Localism"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:47 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

XM-Sirius, regulatory blackmail, and diversity

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:02 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Meyerson on Zell: The Idiocy of Equating Media Reinvention to Terrorism

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:25 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Video Game Platform Competition

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:08 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Comcast to move to bandwidth cap / metering solution?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:46 PM | Broadband, Economics, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 22): TW spin-off of cable unit

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:31 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Why both the Left & Right love media regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:29 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Bruce Everiss on video game piracy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:56 AM | IP, Mass Media

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Britannica Blog's excellent "Newspapers & the Net" forum

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:54 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Micropayments reconsidered

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:10 PM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Twilight for TV Critics?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:07 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, April 4, 2008

presentation at PSU's conference on future of video games

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:45 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"Critical blow" for broadcasters in the ad market?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:09 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The conversation the Net enables

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:06 AM | Internet, Mass Media

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Media Metrics: The Pictures!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:07 PM | Mass Media

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Media Metrics: The Series So Far

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:58 AM | Mass Media

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Mermigas on the challenges facing traditional media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:51 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Thoughts on 2008 “State of the News Media” report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:38 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, March 14, 2008

IDC's "Diverse & Exploding Digital Universe" report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:16 AM | Exaflood, Mass Media

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

USA Today's story about the Martin FCC

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:26 AM | Cable, Free Speech, Generic Rant, Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Sports Programming Hearing

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 11:26 AM | Mass Media, Sports

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Media Metrics #7: An Uncertain Future for Newspapers

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:10 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Jon Fine's "Requiem for Old-Time Radio"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:31 PM | Mass Media

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Media Metrics #6: The Video Revolution

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:28 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, February 29, 2008

Kids and Media

posted by Amy Smorodin @ 10:29 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Online Safety & Parental Controls

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Media Deconsolidation (Part 21): TW spin-off of AOL

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:14 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, February 1, 2008

Media Metrics #5: The Competition for Our Ears

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:43 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Media Metrics #4: Changing Fortunes

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:42 PM | Mass Media

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Media Metrics #3: Ad Wars

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:57 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, January 18, 2008

MagHound: Another interesting new media business model

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:27 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Media Metrics #2: Household Access to Media Services & Technologies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:28 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Media Metrics #1: Introduction & Analytical Framework

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:48 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Friday, January 11, 2008

While the FCC wages a war on cable...

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:23 AM | Cable, Innovation, Mass Media

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Media Deconsolidation (Part 20): News Corp spins off 8 TV stations

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:31 AM | Mass Media

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Does "the public" really communicate with the FCC?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:25 AM | Generic Rant, Mass Media, The FCC

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A Rushed Review for XM-Sirius?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:44 AM | Antitrust, Mass Media

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Cable TV "Gatekeeper" Myths Debunked

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:07 PM | Cable, Mass Media, The FCC

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National Review on FCC's Cable War

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:33 PM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

FCC Budget: Out of Control

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:32 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Setting the Record Straight on Current FCC Policies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:37 AM | A La Carte, Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Commissioner McDowell's sensible thinking on media policy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:06 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Media Deregulation is Dead

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:03 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Media Deconsolidation (Part 19): IAC/Interactive Corp. divides by 5

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:28 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, October 26, 2007

Copps on News Corp-WSJ deal

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:54 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Troubling poll regarding attitudes toward Net regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:04 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Response to Christian Coalition-NARAL call for net neutrality regs

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:07 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Media Deconsolidation (Part 18): Scripps Splits

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:50 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Thoughts on Andrew Keen, Part 2: The Dangers of the Stasis Mentality

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:44 AM | Books & Book Reviews, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Thoughts on Andrew Keen, Part 1: Why an Age of Abundance Really is Better than an Age of Scarcity

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:55 AM | Books & Book Reviews, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Monday, September 24, 2007

The Power of New Media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:34 AM | Innovation, Internet, Mass Media

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Friday, September 7, 2007

Who Killed TV's "Family Hour"?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:30 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Online Safety & Parental Controls

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Friday, August 17, 2007

On "Digital Divides"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:32 AM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Friday, August 10, 2007

A La Carte: Voluntary vs. Mandatory

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:44 PM | A La Carte, Cable, Mass Media

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

editorial on Murdoch-WSJ deal

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:44 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Patrick & Hazlett on Fairness Doctrine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:42 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Second Life to Adopt Age Verification

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:30 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Privacy

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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Media Deconsolidation (Part 17): Clear Channel Station Sell-off

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:50 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, April 16, 2007

new City Journal essay on "The Media Cornucopia"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:44 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

More on XM-Sirius

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:55 PM | Antitrust, Mass Media

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Monday, March 26, 2007

The Other America

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:00 PM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Ahrens on Media Consolidation Myths

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:45 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, February 19, 2007

XM + Sirius = Good Deal (for the Companies and Consumers)

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:21 PM | Mass Media, Wireless

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Radio Wars, Round 2

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:15 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Democrats Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 1: The Fairness Doctrine

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:37 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Dispatch from CES - Day 3 (Is Packaged Media Dead?)

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:07 PM | Generic Rant, IP, Mass Media

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Dispatch from CES - Day 2 (Future of TV & Video Distribution)

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:36 AM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

Dispatch from CES: Day 1 -- Gaming Issues

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:05 PM | Free Speech, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Declaration of Independence for Virtual Worlds?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:35 AM | Generic Rant, Innovation, Mass Media

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Monday, December 4, 2006

(Virtual) Taxation without Representation?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:19 AM | Mass Media, Taxes

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Appearance on C-SPAN's "The Communicators"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:11 AM | Communications, DACA, Free Speech, General, Mass Media, Spectrum, Universal Service

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Illogical Fears about Online Gaming & Net Neutrality

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:38 PM | Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Media Deconsolidation (Part 16): Clear Channel Crackup

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:05 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Latest from Brussels on TVWF

posted by Patrick Ross @ 5:17 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

X-Box Movie / TV Download Business Model Announced

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:52 PM | IP, Innovation, Mass Media

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Monday, October 30, 2006

NYT on Media Ownership

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:26 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Media Deconsolidation, Part 15: AOL-TW Divorce Near?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:27 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

UK Fighting the Good Fight

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:42 AM | Free Speech, Internet, Mass Media

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Virtual Reality Reporters

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:17 PM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

The Final Fantasy Leak: Situational Ethics with Video Game Piracy?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:38 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Media Regulation and Net Neutrality

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:22 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Monday, September 25, 2006

RAND on Economic Impact of EU's "TV Without Frontiers" Directive

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:20 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Media Deconsolidation, Part 14: Time Warner Without Time?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:52 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, September 7, 2006

PlayStation 3, Console Wars & the Costs of Complexity

posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:30 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Do's and Dont's for Media Regulation

posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:23 AM | Free Speech, IP, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media

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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Al Gore on Media & Democracy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:53 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Defending "Old" Media

posted by Patrick Ross @ 12:23 PM | Commons, Mass Media

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The "Adventure Window," Radio Formats and Media Ownership Rules

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:17 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Wanna Be Mayor of New York?

posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:40 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Another Case of "Rights Inflation": Sports on Cable TV

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:56 PM | A La Carte, Cable, Economics, Free Speech, Generic Rant, Mass Media, Sports

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006

The Economics of Trade Shows & the Downsizing of "E3"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:41 AM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Monday, July 24, 2006

A Psychological Explanation for Censorship and Claims of "Media Bias"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:45 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Microsoft XBOX Live & Net Neutrality

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:23 AM | Broadband, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Friday, July 7, 2006

Coase, Property Rights, Regulation and Rentseeking

posted by Ray Gifford @ 1:36 AM | Cable, Digital TV, Economics, IP, Innovation, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Remarks at Conference on Social Networking & Child Protection

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Thursday, June 8, 2006

Media Deconsolidation, Part 13: Tribune Considering Major Downsizing

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:15 PM | Mass Media

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Sunday, June 4, 2006

Media Deconsolidation, Part 12: Time Warner President Calls Synergy "Bull---t"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:15 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Competition Works: An Analysis of Competing Cable-Telco "Triple-Play" Packages

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:19 PM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Mass Media, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Report from the "E3" (Video Game Industry) Trade Show

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:32 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Monday, May 8, 2006

Net Neutrality Regs Could Threaten Online High-Def Video

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:51 PM | Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality

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Friday, May 5, 2006

Why Communications and Media Markets Will Probably Never Be Deregulated

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:17 AM | Communications, Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Thursday, May 4, 2006

The Fourth Estate and the US

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:59 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:49 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, Wireline

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Monday, May 1, 2006

Some Thoughts on the New Senate Telecom Reform Draft

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:01 PM | Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A Paranoid Parent Ponders GPS Tracking His Kids

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:25 AM | Generic Rant, Mass Media, Privacy

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

So You Still Believe in Infrastructure Socialism?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:55 AM | Broadband, Communications, Innovation, Mass Media, Wireline

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Monday, April 3, 2006

Protecting Children

posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:06 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Monday, March 20, 2006

The 6 Myths Driving the Push for Video Game Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:40 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

They Say Newspapers Are Dead, But...

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:49 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, February 13, 2006

More on New FCC A La Carte Report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:37 PM | A La Carte, Cable, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Thursday, February 9, 2006

Initial Thoughts on the FCC's Revised A La Carte Report

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:33 PM | A La Carte, Cable, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Monday, February 6, 2006

The SlingBox, Space-Shifting and the Future of Broadcasting

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:51 AM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

And Then There Were Five

posted by Patrick Ross @ 12:23 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Two New PFF Editorials on A La Carte

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:20 AM | Cable, Mass Media

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Friday, December 16, 2005

Family-Friendly Tiering as Censorship

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM | Cable, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Internet Regulation Without Frontiers

posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:45 AM | Economics, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

A "Voluntary" Charade: The "Family-Friendly Tier" Case Study

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:57 PM | Cable, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Friday, December 9, 2005

A La Carte as Censorship

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:01 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

More Mobilizing Media

posted by Daniel English @ 11:28 PM | Mass Media

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Monday, December 5, 2005

A La Carte: Moral Aspects of the Debate

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:10 PM | Cable, Free Speech, Mass Media

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Friday, December 2, 2005

2006 Outlook for Media / Content Companies

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:05 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

More Bad News for Old Media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:56 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, November 21, 2005

The Video Revolution Just Keeps Rollin' Along

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:01 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Media Market Mashups

posted by Daniel English @ 2:45 PM | Mass Media

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Media Deconsolidation, Part 11: Knight Ridder's Coming Crackup

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:37 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, November 18, 2005

In Search of Appropriate Social Goals in Communications Regulation

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:12 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Free Speech, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Migrating Video Content

posted by Daniel English @ 6:25 PM | Mass Media

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Welcoming Daniel English

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:45 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Is Convergence Nothing But Hype?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:52 PM | Communications, Innovation, Mass Media

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Friday, November 4, 2005

A One-Person CPB

posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:56 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Real Net Neutrality Debate: Pricing Flexibility Versus Pricing Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:11 AM | Communications, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, Wireline

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Friday, October 14, 2005

Crossing Thresholds: Questioning the Ends and Means of Social Regulation in Communications

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 8:38 PM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, General, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Net Neutrality, The FCC, Universal Service, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

More Signs of the Impending Death of Content Controls

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:54 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Thursday, October 6, 2005

Yahoo as a Media Slayer

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:59 PM | Mass Media

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And the Oscar Goes to...

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:50 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Google, Do You Really Want to Be a Telecom Company?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:37 PM | Broadband, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, Municipal Ownership, Net Neutrality, Wireless

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Regulation Without Frontiers

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:20 PM | Communications, Digital Europe, Free Speech, Internet, Mass Media

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Monday, September 19, 2005

Blockbuster and Video Rental Industry, Part 3: The Beginning of the End?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:11 PM | Antitrust, Mass Media

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Friday, September 16, 2005

Long Live Public Interest Regulation!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:07 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Mass Media, VoIP, Wireline

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Four Biggies and Counting

posted by @ 11:05 AM | Internet, Mass Media

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

New Blogs on Media Industry / Media Economics

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:07 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, September 9, 2005

Cable Ownership Caps Reconsidered

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:10 AM | Cable, Mass Media

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Thursday, September 8, 2005

Do Markets Work? Comparing Computing and Communications over the Past Decade

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:01 AM | General, Innovation, Mass Media, The FCC

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Friday, August 19, 2005

The FCC and Organization Development

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 10:17 AM | Broadband, Cable, Capitol Hill, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Spectrum, The FCC, VoIP, Wireless, Wireline

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

What Does the Future Hold for the Television Industry?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:04 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Downsides to Deregulating Broadband??

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 7:00 PM | Broadband, Cable, Communications, Innovation, Internet, Mass Media, Supreme Court, The FCC, Wireless, Wireline

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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

A Refresher Course on the Pitfalls of A La Carte Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:14 PM | Cable, Mass Media

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Public Broadcasting Subsidies: Welfare for the Rich and Well-Educated

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:52 AM | Mass Media

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Is Google Evil? The Never-Ending Search for High-Tech Villainy

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:45 PM | Generic Rant, Mass Media

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Monday, June 20, 2005

My TCS Article on "What Ever Happened to the Big Media Boogeyman?"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:10 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Media Deconsolidation, Part 10: Viacom's Breakup Official

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:38 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Supreme Court Rejects Media Ownership Case--What's Next?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:52 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Media Myths Book is Finally Out!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:51 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, June 9, 2005

Google Is a Media Company... and the Biggest One in the World

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:26 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, June 8, 2005

From Luxury Good to Disposable Item (Parts 2 & 3): A $30 Disposable Video Camera and a $1400 Plasma Television

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:10 AM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

PBS "News on Demand" Report Highlights Amazing Media Changes

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:51 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, June 3, 2005

Filling the Ranks

posted by Kyle Dixon @ 4:53 PM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media, The FCC

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Media Deconsolidation, Part 9: Viacom's Split

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:03 PM | Mass Media

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Ben Compaine on Media's "New Western Frontier"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:07 PM | Mass Media

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

10 Million Blogs and Counting

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:33 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Stephen Gray of the Christian Science Monitor on the Marvels of the Modern Media Age

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:43 PM | Mass Media

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Have a Contractual Dispute? Run to the FCC!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:56 AM | Mass Media

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Reflections on the Death of Old Media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:46 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Media Deconsolidation, Part 8: Time Warner Spin Off of AOL Likely

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:10 AM | Mass Media

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Commissioner Gloom-and-Doom and His Amazing Media Diversity Deception

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:38 AM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Ben Compaine's New Media Blog

posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:28 PM | Mass Media

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Media Deconsolidation, Parts 6 & 7: Emmis & Disney Divestitures

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Your Soapbox is My Soapbox! Thoughts on the Media Access Movement in General and the Media & Democracy Coalition's "Bill of Media Rights" in Particular

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:25 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

new Ben Compaine / NMRC report on "The Media Monopoly Myth"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:53 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Blogging & Campaign Finance Law: A Simple (Probably Too Simple!) Solution

posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:46 AM | Campaign Finance Law, Mass Media

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Friday, April 29, 2005

Media Deconsolidation, Part 5: "Clear Channel to Dismantle Media Empire"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:41 AM | Mass Media

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Friday, April 22, 2005

How Google and the Internet Are Challenging Traditional Media

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:47 AM | Mass Media

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Thursday, April 21, 2005

"Hill Ponders Regulating Convergence": A Note on the Proper Way to Solve "Level Playing Field" Concerns

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:57 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

More on Cellphone TV Regulation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:45 AM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Wireless

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Your Telephone Company Will Be Your Next Cable Company

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:52 AM | Cable, Communications, Mass Media

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Monday, April 18, 2005

Do Regulators Read the Papers? The Blockbuster Antitrust Fiasco Revisited

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:43 AM | Antitrust, Mass Media

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Saturday, April 16, 2005

From Luxury Good to Disposable Item: The Amazing $29 DVD Player

posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:44 PM | Innovation, Mass Media

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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Media Convergence and the "Digital Zoo"

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:06 PM | Mass Media

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Murdoch: Embrace the Web

posted by Ray Gifford @ 8:39 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Media Deconsolidation, Part 4: Is News Corp. Next to Downsize?

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:50 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Blog Inflation: Sajak, Streisand, Shatner

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:34 PM | Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Still More on Media Deconsolidation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:59 PM | Mass Media

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

More on Media (De)Consolidation

posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:13 PM | Mass Media

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Friday, March 18, 2005

The Radio "Monopoly" Myth

posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:48 AM | Mass Media

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Red Lion R.I.P.: FCC Declares the Scarcity Doctrine Dead

posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:05 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media, Wireless

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Stop This Insane Media De-Consolidation!

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:05 AM | Mass Media

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Blocking Blockbuster

posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM | Antitrust, Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

More on Media Convergence and Censorship

posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:15 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Hillary Clinton Wants a V-Chip in Your I-Pod

posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:18 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Saturday, March 5, 2005

Introducing PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom

posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:20 PM | Free Speech, Mass Media

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Sunday, January 9, 2005

Newspapers in Foxholes

posted by @ 8:15 PM | Mass Media

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