Moyers on America "The Net at Risk", October 18th, 2006

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Moyers on America Presents "The Net at Risk".
PBS, (check local listings) Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 9PM, EDT

Teletruth's Bruce Kushnick and Tom Allibone are featured in "The New
Digital Divide" segment.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neutrality.html

Moyers on America presents a new, serious investigative analysis of the
future of broadband, the Net and media --- from municipalities trying to
Wifi or rewire their cities, to the large phone companies who claim that
they 'own-the net' or large media concerns who have the power to take
control of the information and stories you see and hear.

The program has been divided into four segments.

THE NET AT RISK
"The debate is hot, the language heady, the metaphors many. Op-ed pages
alternately bemoan "The End of the Internet" or curse "Net Neutrality
Nonsense."

THE NEW DIGITAL DIVIDE
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/usworld.html

Teletruth is featured. Check out the video --- "In Korea and Japan
customers
are getting 100 Mbps services in both directions for about $40 bucks" -
(That's 100 times faster than America's DSL services.)

"America's screwed," says Bruce Kushnick, a telecom analyst. "I mean, we
basically are becoming technologically deficient. We're close to the
dinosaurs compared to what these other countries are going to be
developing
in the next couple years."

Other sections include:

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/community.html
"The Net @ Risk" takes viewers to Lafayette, Louisiana, where
residents and
officials took on their phone company, BellSouth, and their cable
company,
Cox Communications, and built their own high-speed fiber network
after the
firms refused to bring true broadband connections to their community."

BIG AND BIGGER MEDIA
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/bigger.html
"In 1984 the number of companies owning a controlling interest in
America's
media was 50 - today that number is six. Critics of media
consolidation say
it has led to fewer and fewer perspectives being presented -- and a
marked
decrease in local news coverage."

Teletruth believes America's digital future is at stake, not to
mention the
future of the U.S. economy. We are pleased to be part of this important
investigative report.

More: Read Teletruth's series for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog project on
telecommunications, the Internet, wireless and broadband.

<http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm? fuseaction=about.viewContributor&bioid=130>

For more about Teletruth http://www.teletruth.org

Evil is defined by mortals who think they know
"The Truth" and use force to apply it to others.

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