OP/ED by Timothy Karr Campaign Director Free Press www.freepress.net AT&T wants you to believe that its takeover of T-Mobile would be good for jobs, innovation and the economy, while saving you hundreds of dollars on your mobile bills. Don’t believe the fairy tale. If this deal goes through, just two companies, AT&T and Verizon, would…
OP/ED by Craig Aaron President and CEO Free Press Action Fund Outrageous! FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast – just four months after she voted to approve the Comcast-NBC merger.1 This is just the latest – but perhaps most blatant — example of so-called "public…
by Timothy Karr of www.freepress.net A million people took to the streets of Egypt earlier this week to protest the Mubarak regime and call for democratic reform. The Egyptian government responded, again, by cutting off Internet access and plunging the nation into digital darkness. Such drastic action is a new way for governments to smother…
Los Angeles Times Investigation Shows Deception Continues on Local Newscasts From The Free Press (NL- With the stories I am posting today, I guess it’s fighting for free speech day, but shouldn’t it be that everyday?) WASHINGTON — Free Press has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to investigate the…
