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Protesting the Koch Brothers
Josh Stearns
May 24, 2013

Every week for the past month, there have been rallies and protests outside the offices of Tribune Company newspapers around the U.S. Rumors are swirling about the potential sale of the Tribune papers — including the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times — to the notorious billionaire Koch brothers.
Come Clean: Groups Demand Transparency from Attorney General Eric Holder
Josh Stearns
May 24, 2013

A day after President Obama ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to review the Justice Department’s guidelines regarding interactions with the press, Free Press and a diverse coalition of civil liberties, digital rights and open government groups weighed in on the agency’s treatment of journalists’ sources and information.
The Very Model of the Modern Messy Video Market
Candace Clement
May 23, 2013
While I’ve spent a fair amount of my adult life critiquing the media, I am in fact a pretty big fan of television.
Cord Cutting and the Cable Cabal
S. Derek Turner
May 23, 2013
Rapidly rising cable fees are sending some subscribers looking for a pair of metaphorical scissors so they can cut the cord. In 2009, pay-TV adoption reached an all-time high at 88 percent of American households. But it started a slow decline thereafter, reaching 85 percent at the end of 2012.
Happy, Profitable Middlemen
S. Derek Turner
May 22, 2013
Have you ever sat with your TV remote, aimlessly flipping through hundreds of channels you have no interest in, and wondered, “Why do I have to pay for all this?”
Who Owns the Media? Obama's Next FCC Chairman
Craig Aaron
May 21, 2013
When President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he praised him as the "Bo Jackson of telecom" — because he's been an all-star in two industries.
Time for Change: First Woman Takes Helm at the FCC
Joseph Torres
May 21, 2013
It’s important to celebrate whenever social barriers are knocked down — including the one that fell on Monday when Mignon Clyburn became the acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.
The Series of Tubes: AT&T's Up to Its Old Tricks
Josh Levy
May 17, 2013
AT&T is at it again, blocking the open Internet and finding devious new ways to stomp on innovation, nickel-and-dime its customers and add to its ever-growing profits.