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Free Press Loves Net Neutrality, Not FCC's Rules

When the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules were published last Friday, everyone in Washington expected that the first lawsuit out of the box would be filed by Verizon and maybe...

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More Groups File Suit Over FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

This should keep the lawyers at the Federal Communications Commission busy: Three more groups have filed lawsuits against the FCC's controversial net neutrality rules, which will go into effect Nov....

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Verizon Challenges FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Again

On Friday, Verizon filed suit challenging the Federal Communications Commission's controversial net neutrality rules for a second time. The company originally filed suit earlier this year, only to...

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Groups Urge Court: Don't Cave In on Political Disclosure Online

A half-dozen public interest groups that advocated for the Federal Communications Commission's new rule to move TV station political files online, petitioned the court to defend the regulation in the...

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Groups Unveil Dueling Declarations of Internet Freedom

Washington seems to be in love with codes of conduct, bills of rights, and now declarations of Internet freedom. On the eve of July 4, policy influencers have come up with not one, but two...

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Public Interest Groups Prepare to Review TV Political Ad Files

Public interest groups are practically salivating that starting today TV stations must begin posting online political disclosure files containing information about who is spending what in the 2012...

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First Mover: Robert McDowell

Specs Age 49Who FCC commissioner; post-election, back in minority as Republican memberFCC stuff can be pretty geeky. You’ve quoted everything from Shakespeare to Star Trek. What we do touches the daily...

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FCC Takes Up Low-Power Radio to Add Diversity to Airwaves

Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create...

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Senate Dems Blast FCC Draft to Relax Media Ownership Rules

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski is catching a lot of flak inside the Beltway for how he's handling a draft order of media ownership rules. Rather than holding a public...

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Genachowski Hits the Pause Button

More than two months after Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski circulated an order proposing to lift the ban on owning a newspaper and radio station in a market, the...

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Another Delay in FCC Media Ownership Rules Proceeding

Here's a shocker: The Federal Communications Commission's proceeding on media ownership rules is now officially on hold pending an impact study on how cross-ownership affects minority ownership. It...

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Study: Cross-Ownership of Media Doesn't Impact Minorities

One of the biggest arguments against liberalizing the cross-ownership of media properties in a local market—that it would limit minority and female ownership—was shot down in a study conducted as part...

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Mozilla Helps Launch Coalition to Stop NSA Spy Dragnet

Mozilla was out front and center for the launch of Stop Watching Us, a coalition of more than 80 civil liberties and privacy organizations calling for an end to what they call spying by the National...

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Public Interest Groups, Cable Companies Oppose Gannett-Belo Merger

Gannett's $2.2 billion deal to buy Belo to become a 43 TV station super group is opening up some old-media consolidation wounds in Washington. Several public interest groups representing newspaper and...

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FCC's Wheeler Vows to Take Next Steps on Net Neutrality 'Shortly'

The pressure is mounting on the Federal Communications Commission to revisit how it will regulate net neutrality in the wake of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision that tossed the rules back in...

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Comcast-Time Warner Cable Regulatory Review Will Be Raucous

The proposed $45.2 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable will keep both public interest groups and regulators busy in the coming months. Expect a raucous and drawn-out transaction...

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AT&T Deal to Buy DirecTV Rocks Telecom, Media Universe

The AT&T deal to buy DirecTV is officially only a couple hours old, but it's already shaking up the telecom and media industry and causing consumer groups to fret. Announced shortly after 5 p.m....

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