Section 230: boon or threat to the public

Final Project for University of Washington Com 588 U.S. Digital Media Law and Policy  Ross Reynolds  June 12, 2009

Subject:
Does the federal law that protects Internet service providers, bloggers and chat rooms from liability for items posted by third parties serve the public interest? If not, how could these rules be modified to better protect the public interest? Would such modifications serve the public interest?

My long lost first album

Recorded before I learned how to edit off false starts.

Obscenity and Indecency in broadcasting

This is a paper I wrote for my University of Washington Digital law class. It takes the form of memo to an imaginary Senator.

New media and radio

Here I am babbling on in 2007. A view of how producers Sage Van Wing, Jenny Asarnow and I produced The Conversation.

What is the business of public radio?

I’d like to cover three things in this presentation:

• A brief history of radio
• The current challenges to public radio.
• Three possible futures of public radio.

Slideshow
at Slideshare

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The Internet: Foe of Democracy? | Harvard Magazine

Former law professor, now Clinton Administration adviser Cass Sunstein on studies which show the web separates us.

Can Blogging Make You Happier?

Taiwanese researchers say a survey of 596 college students found using a blog as a social journal helped their sense of well being.

Las Vegas or Europe?

For more go here.

Questions on Bagdikian’s “The Media Monopoly”

Media Monopoly author Ben Bagdikian

The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian AFTERWORD published by Beacon Press, 1997

1. Broadcast television has lost viewers and market share since Bagdikian’s book was published. What is the current state of the media monopoly?

2. Bagdikian wrotes approvingly of the Fairness Doctrine, a Federal Communications Rule which required broadcasters to air both sides of a controversial issues. Broadcasters pressured the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, paving the way for politically one-sided talk radio formats. What are the best reasons to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine?

3. What are the best reasons to not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine?

Peanut farmer and me.

Jimmy Carter and Ross Reynolds Feb 11, 2009

We talked about fly fishing, peanut farming and harvesting pine trees, then did the interview.