JTfor2032
Re:What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like
on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @02:02AM (#2681942)
I have never quite liked Sarkozy
Re:Saving the Internet for the People
on Friday June 17, 2011 @02:42AM (#2664598)
Is anything similar happening in Europe?
Re:Saving the Internet for the People
on Friday June 17, 2011 @12:22AM (#2664309)
A nice, well written article over-all. However I would like point out an observation I made that nobody seems to pick up on. The “"big six" are all American corporations that trying to monopolize American media industries, which leads to false sense of freedom of speech among Americans. As you know it will be hard to get this documentary produced and released to an American audience that lies in the middle an information monopolization that I have termed the "media bubble". All attempts to break the media bubble from within the media bubble will encounter a devastating attack from the big six corporations. So far no one has purposed a strategy that incorporates gaining support and using resources from outside the bubble. A place such as Europe, will allow the documentary to be very resistant from corporate attacks. While, Europeans might not be as compelled, to donate their money towards a documentary aimed at stopping a corporate takeover in America, Europe still has plenty of characteristics, which the United States lacks, that would be fruitful for making a documentary.
Ps. the chart, which is displayed in the article, cannot be zoomed in on and is rather hard to understand. However it could just be the fact that I am not very intelligent.
Re:New Documentary to Expose Media Consolidation and Government Collusion
on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @10:49PM (#2659937)
There is no doubt that this is good cause. Yet, there is much to be pessimistic about it. First off, it will be excruciatingly difficult to produce a documentary of decent quality, comparable to ones such as "Inside Job", with only a budget of 150,000 USD. You definitely need to look to acquire a budget of at least 300,000 USD. Secondly, this documentary is extremely vulnerable to being thwarted by the "big six" media corporations. The only thing that stands in the way of corporations having complete power over the American people and their government is pro net-neutrality regulations. We will of course witness the perhaps the most determined onslaught on a small organization than we have ever seen taken by the corporations. Finally, creating and releasing a documentary presents the challenging fact that the current political situation concerning net neutrality changes at a rapid rate. A couple of examples would be how Obama campaigned on net neutrality, yet when he came into office his administration had corporations make a law that protected their interests over individual citizens. The other example is how Meredith Baker approved the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal and then resigned from the FCC to become the leading lobbyist for Comcast. This ever changing nature of net neutrality would make it necessary to release the documentary shortly after it has been filmed.