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 | District Makes Deal With Hedge Fund Group To Sell KCSM-TV's Public Airwaves To Wireless Companies
by Tracy Rosenberg, The Advocate - AFT Local 1493
October 4th, 2013
Time is running out for KCSM-TV. The 5th largest public television station in California, whose license has been owned by the College of San Mateo since 1964, has been placed in the safe-keeping of Locuspoint Networks, a commercial entity founded by former wireless executives. Locuspoint's activities in "spectrum speculation" are described by Ben Mook in an article in the February 26, 2defend-public-media013 issue of Current. Locuspoint, which is a 99%-owned subsidiary of one the nation's largest hedge firms, the Blackstone Group, is described as one of three for-profit firms gambling on the upcoming TV auction to hit the jackpot buying and disposing of television stations around the country, including noncommercial ones like that belonging to the College of San Mateo. |
 | Communications Safety Net: Lifeline
New America Foundation
September 13th, 2013
Often disparaged as "Obamaphones", the Lifeline program (which was actually started during the Reagan administration) provides subsidized communication services to low-income people, enabling critical safety, health and job search services. |
 | FCC Hearing on Prison Phone Rates
by FCC Hearing on Interstate Calling Rates, FCC Live
July 17th, 2013
It's definitely on the long side, but we wanted to archive the historic FCC hearing on interstate calls from prisons - 11 years after Martha Wright filed her petition seeking relief from unmanageable calling rates. |
 | Verizon. Overcharging. Again.
by Harry Cole, Communications Law Blog
July 1st, 2013
Even when we win, we don't win. A DC law firm is claiming the 2010 Verizon consent decree, much celebrated as a sterling example of the FCC's dedication to consumer protection, collected barely a 5th of customer overcharges. |
.jpg) | A Light Moment: Unfairness is Universal
by Frans De Waals, Ted Talks
This delightful video shows Capuchin monkeys reacting to unfairness and inequity when one gets compensated with cucumber bits for doing a task and another with the much better pay rate of a grape. We can all relate. |
 | Glen Greenwald at Socialism 2013
by Glenn Greenwald, Socialism 2013
An important speech by the Guardian reporter and columnist on the Snowden leaks, the ongoing surveillance stories in the Guardian and what the past few weeks have revealed about journalism. |
 | Behind The Prism
by Alfredo Lopez, May First/Peoplelink
June 20th, 2013
Recent coverage and public discussion of the government's Internet and telephone spying leaves a major question unanswered: How, given what we know, does this trashing of privacy affect activists, particularly women and people of color? |
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