Michael Copps will keep working on media and Internet issues. In...
Michael Copps will keep working on media and Internet issues. In his first monthly blog for the Benton Foundation, the ex-FCC member wrote about a commitment to net neutrality and public interest obligations for media. “Traditional media -- radio, TV…
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and cable -- have by-and-large stripped themselves of the resources needed to inform the American people,” he wrote (http://xrl.us/bmxeh6). “It might not be so bad if new media could clean up the old media mess. But by now we should realize it’s not on auto-pilot to do this. While interesting innovation and entrepreneurship are taking place on the Internet, nowhere do I see the sustaining model or the deep-pocketed resources needed to fuel democracy’s news and information requirements. Business hasn’t found the models and government hasn’t bothered to articulate the vision.” New media “platforms are inherently, intrinsically and inevitably infused with public interest implications,” Copps wrote: On net neutrality, “hopefully the public and private sectors can work together on this, but in the end it won’t happen without rules,” and “government needs to lead."