Franken: 'They're Coming After the Internet' Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) claimed that big corporations are "hoping to destroy" the Internet and issued a call to arms to several hundred tech-savvy South by Southwest attendees to preserve Net Neutrality. "They're coming after the Internet, hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important medium for independent artists and entrepreneurs: Its openness and freedom," Franken said.
Mike Zapler, Politico
Sen. Al Franken to Introduce Bill Making Net Neutrality Violations a Crime While House Republicans push to eliminate new Net Neutrality regulations adopted by the FCC, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced that he will introduce legislation to make violations of Net Neutrality a crime.
Eric W. Dolan, The Raw Story
Dems, Republicans Still Strongly Divided over Net Neutrality The Network Neutrality issue continued to break heavily, and passionately, along party lines in the House Energy and Commerce Committee even as Republican leaders were trying to collect bipartisan support.
John Eggerton, Multichannel News
AT&T Puts Broadband Users on Monthly Allowance AT&T broadband users will soon face a cap on the amount of Internet data they can download a month. Traditional DSL users will be capped at 150 GB per month, while subscribers to the fiber-backed U-Verse system have a 250 GB limit.
Ryan Singel, Wired
Free Press Troubled by AT&T Usage-Based Pricing Plan Free Press called on Congress to investigate what it called "Internet overcharging schemes" to make sure they were not anticompetitive. The group was responding to AT&T's announcement that it will charge DSL customers who use over 150 GB per month.
John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Is AT&T's New 150 GB Data Cap Justified? Starting May 2, AT&T will impose 150 GB monthly limits on its currently uncapped DSL service, while its fiber-to-the-node U-Verse subscribers will get 250 GB. AT&T says the move will affect "less than 2 percent" of customers and that it is necessary to address congestion in the network. The caps are not draconian, but they represent a change of direction for one of the largest ISPs in the country, and they are already stirring up opposition.
Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
Markey Pledges Vigilance on AT&T Data Caps Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is concerned that AT&T's decision to cap data usage for fixed Internet connections could do damage to broadband adoption levels and hurt U.S. competitiveness.
Sara Jerome, The Hill
Time Warner Cable Brings Live TV to the iPad Time Warner Cable is launching an iPad application that will bring live television to the iPad, although don't plan on going farther than your front yard as viewing will be restricted to the home.
Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times
80 Percent of Children Under Five Use Internet Weekly Nearly 80 percent of children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet at least once a week in the United States, according to a new report. The report, which was assembled using data from seven recent studies, indicates that young children are increasingly consuming all types of digital media, in many cases consuming more than one type at once.
Sarah Kessler, Mashable
Ira Glass: I Don't Understand Why NPR Is Not Fighting Back "This American Life" host Ira Glass went on NPR's "On the Media" show to discuss the organization's current public troubles, and questioned why NPR is not responding head on to conservatives' charge that it has a left-wing bias. "I feel like public radio should address this directly, because I think anybody who listens to our stations understands that what they're hearing is mainstream media reporting," Glass said.
Eric Lach, TalkingPointsMemo
House Proposes CPB Cuts in Latest Continuing Resolution The House Appropriations Committee has offered up another stop-gap continuing resolution spending bill, this time including cuts to public broadcasting among the $6 billion in cuts, though Republican leaders say they are public broadcasting cuts the president has already proposed himself. Elsewhere on the noncom funding front, fans of CPB plan to present one million petitions defending the service.
John Eggerton, Multichannel News
NPR Defunding Vote: Don't Diminish Democracy to Settle a Political Score Republicans in Congress have wanted to defund public broadcasting for decades. Now, after former NPR fundraising executive Ronald Schiller was caught saying that NPR would be "better off in the long run without federal funding," they're on the verge of making that happen. Last week's video sting certainly makes it easier to repeat the talking point that public radio doesn't deserve public support. But careful research of public media in other democracies shows the opposite is true.
Rodney Benson, Christian Science Monitor
Sen. Durbin Slams O'Keefe, Defends Corporation for Public Broadcasting Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) mounted a vigorous defense of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and attacked conservative filmmaker James O' Keefe, reminding his Senate colleagues that O'Keefe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for attempting to break into Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-La.) Louisiana office last year. Durbin said he believes both the CPB as well as NPR present balanced journalism and that they ought not to be stripped of federal funding.
Josiah Ryan, The Hill
Online News Surpasses Newspapers An inevitable shift finally came in 2010, as more Americans got their daily news from online sources other than print, according to a new report.
Erik Sass, MediaPost
How a Charlottesville Newspaper and Nonprofit Make Their Relationship Work A year and a half ago, neither the Daily Progress nor Charlottesville Tomorrow were quite sure their marriage would work. One is a daily newspaper, the other a nonprofit focused on land use and development issues. What they had in common was the same goal of supplying meaningful news to the people of Charlottesville, Virginia. Not only did they make their union work, they're thriving.
Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab
In Internet Age, Sports Teams Are Increasingly in the News Business For sports journalists these days, the playing field isn't always level. Teams and leagues can break their own news, over and around the independent news media that cover them. Professional and big-time college teams aren't just news sources now; they're in the news business, too, with their own radio, TV and Internet operations.
Paul Farhi, Washington Post
Gov. Kasich to Allow Cameras and Audio Recorders in Press Conference on State Budget Ohio Gov. John Kasich's administration quickly stepped back from an attempt to ban TV cameras and broadcast audio recording equipment from a press conference on his state budget plan. The ban drew immediate protests from the Statehouse press corps, the ACLU of Ohio and Ohio Democratic Party.
Laura Bischof, Ohio Politics
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