| News of the movement for August 25, 2011 |  FCC to AT&T: Is That Your Final Answer? The army of lawyers and lobbyists AT&T and T-Mobile have assembled to ram this merger through are going to need more than a conference call or two to make this deal happen. They're going to have to convince two federal agencies, leaders in Congress, at least nine state regulatory agencies, investors and consumers that killing off competitors is somehow good for competition, cutting jobs is somehow good for employment and refusing to invest in infrastructure is somehow good for investment. Joel Kelsey, SavetheInternet.com FCC Wants More T-Mobile LTE Data from AT&T The FCC has requested more data on AT&T's planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. The agency is specifically seeking more data on why AT&T wants to acquire the company. AT&T's primary justification for the deal is they'd be unable to match Verizon's 97 percent LTE coverage without it. However, that argument was accidentally demolished by leaked documents showing AT&T has plenty of resources to accomplish this goal on its own. The company simply doesn't want to pay $3.8 billion to do so. Karl Bode, Broadband Reports FCC Asks AT&T for More Information on Merger The FCC asked AT&T for more information backing the company's claims it needs to merge with T-Mobile in order to bring mobile broadband services to rural areas. The FCC's request comes after the discovery of private AT&T documents filed to the agency that showed the company figured it would cost $3.8 billion to bring 4G LTE wireless services to 97 percent of the country. Cecilia Kang, Washington Post  FCC Investigating Communications Congestion During Quake FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has directed the agency's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau to get together with wireless carriers and public safety call centers to "determine the cause of reported outages" following the recent earthquake. John Eggerton, Multichannel News Phone, Cable Companies Clash over Telecom Reform The cable and phone industries clashed this week on how the FCC should reform an $8 billion telecom fund. Comments filed with the FCC show the two sides are at loggerheads over some aspects of how to reform the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes phone service in low-income and rural areas, and the system of payments between phone carriers. National Journal  For Murdoch, Media Has Often Been About Friends and Influence The practices used by Murdoch and his companies are coming under closer scrutiny in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to News Corp. closing its British tabloid News of the World. The debacle has called into question the cozy relationships the paper and its parent company have with politicians and law enforcement in Britain. In the U.S., Murdoch has not hesitated to use his media holdings to advance the company's business agenda. Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times U.S. Is Still Probing News Corp. 9/11 Hacking Claim The U.S. is still investigating whether the phones of Sept. 11 victims were hacked by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Attorney General Eric Holder told relatives of those killed in the terrorist attacks. Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News  Money Talks While political debate in the past few years has centered on issues critical to working-class Americans -- like health care, entitlement reform, unions and taxes -- America's most prestigious op-ed sections rarely feature contributions from actual members of the working class on these issues. Erika Fry, Columbia Journalism Review Earthquake Exposes East Coast-West Coast Media Feud Despite a chaotic, fluid uprising in Libya, all three network newscasts led their broadcasts with earthquake coverage. But the 5.8 magnitude quake that struck 90 miles outside of Washington, D.C. did more than expose the news media's collectively short attention span: It exposed the snarky rivalry that exists between East Coast and West Coast media. Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News Journalists Trapped in Tripoli's Rixos Hotel are Freed Dozens of journalists that were trapped inside the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel in Tripoli for five days have been allowed to leave. The journalists -- from CNN, Fox News, Reuters and other outlets -- had been held inside by armed forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and the $400-a-night Rixos had become something of a five-star "prison" for journalists. Yahoo! News Why Hyperlocal News Is Better than Ever Hyperlocal news is on the threshold of a period of impressive achievement. Add everything up, and you have a steadily growing number of sites that are innovating to find and produce quality news covering a myriad of topics. This added-value news is reaching and engaging more people, thanks principally to the giant leaps by social media. The best hyperlocals are becoming the X factor in the networked civic renaissance that communities need to emerge stronger from their trying economic times. Tom Grubisich, Street Fight |  
On "Media Matters with Robert McChesney," the guest is author Eli Pariser. Listen here.   The Dumbest Attack on the Netflix 'Free Ride' You Have Ever Read I've just about managed to stuff all those gloopy spare bits of brain back into my skull, but it took a while. I blame Harold Ford Jr. and John Sununu, the ex-politicians now shilling for the ISP-backed Broadband for America, for blowing my mind. Their most recent op-ed, which takes shaky aim at Netflix, must be one of the dumbest such pieces I have ever read -- and I have read a lot of them. Ars Technica Steve Jobs Steps Down As CEO, and an Era Ends at Apple Steve Jobs — the computer pioneer who helped revolutionize the way people communicate, do business, and conduct many other aspects of their lives — has resigned as head of the company that had its roots in a garage filled with gadgets and gizmos. Christian Science Monitor What Google Still Doesn't Get About Running an Online Community Google has come under fire for its stance on the use of real names on Google+, its new social network, from those who believe there is value in allowing some level of anonymity. But regardless of what the search giant decides to do when it comes to real names or any other aspect of Google+, the one thing it has to get better at is communicating clearly with the members of this new community it is trying to build. GigaOM Ladies Love E-Readers, Guys Prefer Tablets Is it too early to assign gender stereotypes to gadgets? New data suggests that e-readers are more popular with women while guys prefer their tablets. Smartphones are now equally popular between the sexes. GigaOM San Francisco Groups Sue over AT&T Utility Boxes A coalition of community groups has filed suit to stop AT&T from installing hundreds of utility boxes on sidewalks throughout San Francisco because they believe the boxes will compromise the beauty of the city. CBS San Francisco TV Cash Tilts College Playing Field As TV networks grow increasingly desperate to lock in exclusive sports rights, well-known sports programs like the University of Texas football team are gaining more power and bigger paydays. Wall Street Journal   | 
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