🚀 go-pugleaf

On 17/03/2010 14:43, seaweedsl wrote:
> On Mar 16, 3:57 pm, Jonz<no....@ishome.com>  wrote:
>> On 3/16/2010 2:19 PM, John Navas wrote:>  F.C.C. Says Adoption of New Broadband Plan Is Vital
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>>    [snippy]
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>> John has finally found his niche - regurgitating old news.
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>> Jonz
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> I've never had a problem with it, nor needed to harass for it.  Serves
> me, more or less. Far more informative than the spam on this group.
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> Cheers,
> Steve
This from M.J.Copps applies to a lot of countries and not just the US.
"But an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more 
informed citizenry. A 2009 study indicates that, as a country, we now 
consume in excess of 1.3 trillion hours of media per year. Yet the 
production and distribution of essential news and information content 
has never been more in doubt. The same hyper-speculation and 
consolidation that wreaked such havoc on so much of our economy began 
early with media, and the destruction was compounded by the almost 
complete dismantlement of public interest oversight of our broadcast 
stations, decimating news, newsrooms and news media. A new Pew Research 
Center report shows a 50 per cent decline in network news reporting
and editing capacity since the 1980s and a 30 per cent drop for 
newspapers since 2000. The pink slips that have replaced pay stubs for 
so many thousands of beat journalists and the evaporating state of 
watchdog journalism have left us, to be frank, on a starvation diet when 
it comes to nourishing our democratic dialogue. A serving of America�s 
daily news and information is about 500 calories short of
a healthy meal. Opinion should feed on facts, not on more opinion�and 
right now, neither our traditional nor our new media is supplying the 
nourishment we need to maintain the health of the body politic. If we 
don�t tread carefully we will have a society with plenty of fat-filled 
chatter but not enough of the protein of facts, terabytes of opinion but 
an empty cup of investigatory journalism to tell us what�s really going 
on, information aplenty about celebrities and weather but a famine of 
real local, national and international news. And this is not just about 
the future�it�s about the present,too."
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296889A1.pdf>