Showing posts with label concerns about news coverage of anti-piracy bills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concerns about news coverage of anti-piracy bills. Show all posts

Sunday, January 15, 2012

A TV Debate on Antipiracy; New York Times, 1/15/12

Brian Stelter, New York Times; A TV Debate on Antipiracy:

"A pair of bills that would strengthen antipiracy laws — and that could effectively censor the Internet, according to heavyweights like Google — have received scant coverage from the major television networks. The parent companies of the TV networks are among the chief supporters of the bills, having lobbied Congress to write them in the first place.

Those two facts, taken together, have caused conspiracy theories to flourish online about corporate interference in news coverage."