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Google said it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has filed a measure aimed at nullifying the controversial FCC rule that would end the 32-year-old ban on radio and television broadcasters owning newspapers in the same media markets.

The sizzling Net Neutrality debate is edging closer to the mobile network sector, as the FCC investigates charges that Comcast purposely slowed BitTorrent P2P traffic and lied about doing it.

The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry has found.

The president of the Independent Film and Television Alliance said she was "astounded" to learn of remarks attacking proponents of Net Neutrality made by the chief of the Motion Picture Association of America.

Media coverage of the presidential campaign has not held Barack Obama and John McCain to the same standard, and may reveal a corporate media bias for McCain.

Connecticut's Joint Committee on Energy and Technology 4-hour hearing on amending the state's recent video franchising law to protect PEG is now available in several video clips.

Big Media is increasingly in alliance with Big Cable/Telco in an attempt to control the Internet. It's time for the government to implement reasonable Net Neutrality oversight that protects consumers and content creators from predatory practices.

The current state of high speed Internet access is one in which real competition does not exist and the free market cannot correct itself. Anti-competitive actions by Comcast must be stopped before they endanger emerging free markets and free speech.

Music labels have shown an increased willingness to consider new business models as P2P file sharing increases. One idea is to pay your ISP a fee, say five dollars a month, to listen to all the music you desire.

News outlets have brimmed with tales of Web sites, Internet service providers and even the government monitoring what you do and say. It's supposedly for your own good, but it's galling how little the monitored masses have to say in the matter.

An alternative media system driven by ordinary Kenyans is emerging in the East African country to help raise the voices of the seldom heard in the midst of chaos and violence.

House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has signaled renewed interest in using antitrust law to protect free speech and market competition on the Internet.

The president of the Independent Film and Television Alliance. She blasted MPAA chief Dan Glickman for coming out against Net Neutrality regulations.

Google was working to restore its YouTube video service in China, after the Chinese government blocked access to the site, which was flooded with videos of clashes between police and protesters in Tibet and other cities.

When candidates are seeking your vote, they can be counted on to mouth civics-book pieties about the public's right to know what's going on in government. But all too often, there is a huge gap between the promises of open government and the reality.

The House passed legislation that would re-authorize U.S. government anti-terrorist surveillance programs but would not grant immunity from lawsuits to telecom providers that have participated with surveillance programs in the past.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the State of the News Media 2008. The overall analysis: The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago, but in different ways than experts predicted.

Despite President Bush's order for improvements more than two years ago, much of the federal government has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

The FCC's Diversity Committee is about to take the wraps off a new initiative to help women and minorities raise the capital they need to become media owners.