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This week on CounterSpin: Why does it matter to me, a media consumer, internet user, a person concerned with social justice—why does a 2–2 deadlock at the FCC matter to me? What could be happening if Biden’s long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through? Net neutrality, an anti-discrimination law around broadband access that isn’t written by corporations? Maybe US citizens could stop paying more for slower broadband than just about every other industrialized country? We won’t know unless Democrats stand up to the series of increasingly absurd and offensive smears on Sohn. And that remains to be seen.
Evan Greer tracks technology and its meaning for justice activism as director of Fight for the Future. She’ll help us place the fight around Gigi Sohn’s FCC nomination in that keystone public conversation.
Transcript: ‘Gigi Sohn Has Faced Relentless Smear Campaigns, Some Funded by the Telecom Industry’
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of the Covid death toll.
ANOTHER Gigi Sohn article !! Watch the money or who is related to who. Stop it already.
It’s always interesting to see the anger generated by articles on the FAIR site that critique the power of the corporate media. Isn’t that what FAIR was created to do? So why are you bothered by this piece? I want to see corporate media utterly destroyed. So should anyone who wants the USA (and the UK, where I live) to become a democracy. Publicly-funded and publicly accountable regulation of corporate media is a start.
As a small, rural wireless ISP who understands the FCC and the issues and has testified before Congress beside Gigi Sohn, I’d like an opportunity to rebut lobbyist Evan Greer’s one sided encomium of Sohn. Would be willing to feature a guest who can tell, as Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story?”
I urge Ms. Jackson and her guest to avoid the Newspeak term REGULATIONS. When speaking of laws and policies that safeguard people from harm, please say what they are: health and safety laws; consumer protection laws; and so on.