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  • Media
    Why Big Cable Is Bad News for the Internet
    May 5, 2016
    | Tim Karr
    Just a year after the Comcast-Time Warner deal was scrapped, the FCC is about to approve another mega-media merger.
  • Media
    How Big-Money Special Interests Took Over Our Media
    March 30, 2016
    | Michael Corcoran
    The media has become controlled by a handful of corporations thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
  • Media
    One Year Later: Hanging Tough for Net Neutrality
    February 25, 2016
    | Tim Karr
    It's been a year since the FCC decision protecting a free and open Internet, but special interest groups still continue their campaign to undo it.
  • Media
    The Scariest Cable Merger Nobody in Washington Is Talking About
    February 4, 2016
    | Michael Copps
    Another proposed media takeover once again threatens competition, creativity, independence and diversity.
  • Money & Politics
    A Victory for Transparency at the FCC
    February 1, 2016
    | John Light
    More broadcasters will now need to disclose the names of groups funding ads on their airwaves. But dark money groups can still keep their donors hidden.
  • Media
    Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits
    December 18, 2015
    | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
    Political campaigns, as well as anonymous (and not so anonymous) millionaires and billionaires, are spending more and more on ads to influence the presidential election — and network heads are cheering them on.
  • Money & Politics
    Obama Could Help Fix Our Broken Democracy. But He Hasn't.
    December 13, 2015
    | John Light
    In a new petition, more than a hundred thousand Americans are asking the president to take action on special-interest money in politics.
  • Society
    How States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband
    June 30, 2015
    | Leticia Miranda
    North Carolina and Tennessee are the latest states to side with telecoms, which have long lobbied against allowing cities to become Internet providers.
  • FCC Chief Tom Wheeler Is Five-Sixths of a Superhero
    June 5, 2015
    | Marty Kaplan
    The last best hope to stop Big Money’s rout of American democracy is a former trade group lobbyist who’s reluctant to stretch his spandex superhero suit too thin.
  • Democracy & Government
    City-Run Internet Services Still in Limbo After FCC Vote
    March 4, 2015
    | Allan Holmes
    Cities must wait for the FCC's final ruling and a likely court fight before they'll know if they can expand public Internet service.


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