Cable Wants Funding for Digital Media Literacy

National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow says that digital media literacy should be a focus of broadband stimulus funding -- to the tune of $500 million. "Congress should direct that the agencies managing distribution of broadband stimulus funding allocate $500 million during the next two years for the development of digital media education tools," McSlarrow said in a speech to the 2009 Annual Conference of the Family Online Safety Institute. "With a substantial portion of stimulus funding yet to be allocated, and with the broadband adoption rate continuing to increase from coast to coast, we must vigorously renew this call to acknowledge as a national priority digital literacy for children and families."