NAB: Gordon Smith Takes Aim at Industry's Ruthless Adversaries

National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith took aim at Google and Wiki on one hand and "some cable operators" on the other in a speech to broadcasters about the ability of its "ruthless, smart and well-financed" adversaries/competitors. Those appeared to include cable operators on the retrans front and the technology community on the content-protection front.

In a keynote speech to the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Smith told his audience that Google and Wiki had taken a lesson from broadcasters' playbooks to "create a powerful megaphone to change forever how battles are won, or lost, inside the Beltway." And while broadcasters had leveraged their power to protect TV stations in the spectrum auction debate, he suggested, the Googles and Wikis had used theirs to change the debate from "thou shalt not steal," to "do not censor the Internet."