Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality
Originally published: October 5, 2009
Last updated: October 5, 2009 - 9:01pm
[Commentary] In response to a Washington post editorial opposing efforts to write Network neutrality rules, Karr writes that the editorial suffers not only from inaccuracy, but also from lack of disclosure. One of the companies that stands to gain from a world without Net Neutrality is Cable One, an Internet service provider active in 19 states that hopes to pad its already considerable profits by stifling the free flow of online communications. One of the principal owners of Cable One is - you guessed it -- the Washington Post. Given the Post's recent controversy over paid editorial salons, the paper would do well to better mind the firewall that allegedly separates news and editorial operations from business back offices. Readers should demand that the Post's ombudsman and editorial page editor clarify this obvious oversight. Not to be outdone, "unabashedly" open corporate shill Scott Cleland demands that Free Press, New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Media Access Project disclose their sponsors.
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