New Orleans Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …
Category: Ideas and Issues
FCC Gives Comcast a Slap for Reneging on Agreements for Broadband Access
New Orleans No sooner are we dissecting Comcast and VP David Cohen’s remarks about metering broadband access than later in the day Gerry Smith, the Huffington Post tech writer, breaks the story of the FCC’s announcement of a settlement with the company over their foot dragging on their agreement to market a fixed rate broadband …
Times-Warner, Comcast, and Others Narrowing Broadband, Widening the Digital Divide
Toronto Yet more disconcerting news flying in the face of all of us who care about the class and opportunity divides that are permanently widening the inequity between have-a-littles and have-a-lots with emerging reports of metered broadband access to the internet thanks to the relentless efforts of Times-Warner, Comcast and other cable companies, and the …