By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-12-21 Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) has joined with almost two dozen other Democratic House members to urge Facebook to crack down on "dangerous misinformation," including misleading ads, and providing ex post facto corrections for all disinformation. The drumbeat of criticism of that social platform has been one of the [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-12-21 Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.) has introduced one bill that would require both better broadband speed measurement and tie funding to higher speeds, and re-introduced another to fund challenges to FCC broadband deployment data. The Broadband Speed Act would require ISPs to report accurate speed data to the FCC [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-12-21 With traditional linear TV viewing down, 42% of advertisers plan to increase spending on streaming, according to a study by Advertiser Perceptions. Top executives will discuss over-the-top video, addressability, and advanced targeting at the Advanced Advertising Summit, starting April 27 as part of the Future Spring TV 2021 week of [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-12-21 Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has slammed the Biden Administration's planned $100 billion in new broadband deployment investment, calling it a big potential blunder that demonstrates the new policy of "measure never, cut checks." That came in an April 8 op ed in The Hill. Carr, who headed up [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in In re Petition for Order Directing Release of Records (Lepore v. United States). The case arises from a petition by Jill Lepore, historian and staff writer for The New Yorker, seeking records from [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-8-21 As expected, the Biden FCC has asked a federal appeals court to hold off on hearing a challenge to the Trump FCC's response to a court remand of its Restoring Internet Freedom net neutrality dereg order, suggesting that challenge could ultimately be moot depending on how the new [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-6-21 Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has made it pretty clear he would consider applying common carrier regulations to dominant edge providers like Google and Facebook. "There is a fair argument that some digital platforms are sufficiently akin to common carriers or places of accommodation to be regulated [...]
FOR RELEASE: April 5, 2021 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., April 5 – Media Institute President Richard T. Kaplar issued the following statement regarding the death of long-time Board member Kurt Wimmer: “We are extremely saddened by the passing of our good friend Kurt Wimmer. He was a member [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-5-21 In a big victory for Google and fair use fans, the Supreme Court has ruled that Google's copying of Oracle's Java computer code (11,500 lines to be exact) for its API, part of its creation of a new Android software platform for mobile devices, was fair use. It [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-2-21 The FCC continues to signal that nothing has changed in the change of administrations, at least when it comes to a proceeding to pull the license from China Telecom so it can no longer connect with U.S. networks. That came in its response to China Telecom's petition to [...]