FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The change is subtle, and misleading by design, but the Internet is in full transition from a participatory interactive communications network to a broadcast medium dominated by electronic commerce. The transition is occurring under the guise of making the technically daunting Internet cheaper and easier to use. At first glance, this new promise by corporate […]
Al Gore may get credit for coining the term “information superhighway,” but it’s Newt Gingrich and company who are burning rubber on it. House Speaker Gingrich and his fellow Republicans have clearly stolen the thunder of their Democratic counterparts in applying state-of-the-art information technology to further their political agenda. Since seizing power in November, the […]
Ever since Vice President Al Gore propelled the metaphor of the”information superhighway” into the public consciousness, Americans have been repeatedly assured that the digital communications revolution will enhance the lives of everyone–rich and poor–by creating instant, low-cost access to the world’s greatest information resources. Yet to observe the continuing feeding frenzy among the world’s most […]
