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Feds Mull Rules, Fees to Spur Net Access

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Federal regulators are considering whether the government should take greater control of the Internet and ask consumers to pay higher phone charges in order to provide all Americans with cheaper access to broadband Internet service.

Meet Maureen Dowd’s Favorite Writer: Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall

Peter Kafka in Media on May 18, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Many of you are just hearing Josh Marshall’s name for the first time, following the New York Times’s admission that columnist Maureen Dowd “failed to attribute” some of her column to him. But that’s a shame because Marshall’s site is noteworthy on its own merits: It’s a self-funded, profitable new-media site that does both blogging/aggregation and real reporting.

Encyclopedia Bush and the Case of the Missing Emails

John Paczkowski in News on January 15, 2009 at 11:11 am PT

In six days, the Bush Administration will take its leave of the White House. But before departing, it must surrender any device or media that might contain those infamous five million missing email messages from between March 2003 and October 2005–messages that covered a period including the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Senate Passes "Eye of Sauron" Act

John Paczkowski in News on July 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm PT

What a remarkable display of political expediency. In a 69 to 28 vote, the U.S. Senate approved The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a sweeping new surveillance law that will effectively grant immunity to telecom companies for cooperating with the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in the years after Sept. 11, 2001.

Senate Passes “Eye of Sauron” Act

John Paczkowski in News on July 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm PT

What a remarkable display of political expediency. In a 69 to 28 vote, the U.S. Senate approved The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a sweeping new surveillance law that will effectively grant immunity to telecom companies for cooperating with the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in the years after Sept. 11, 2001.