November 2015

PRIVACY

THE FCC SAYS IT CAN'T FORCE GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK TO STOP TRACKING THEIR USERS
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Brian Fung, Andrea Peterson]
The Federal Communications Commission said that it will not seek to impose a requirement on Google, Facebook and other Internet companies that would make it harder for them to track consumers’ online activities. The announcement is a blow to privacy advocates who had petitioned the agency for stronger Internet privacy rules. But it's a win for many Silicon Valley companies whose business models rely on monetizing Internet users’ personal data. It's also the latest move in an ongoing battle to defend the agency’s new network neutrality rules, which opponents warned would result in the regulation of popular Web sites and online services. By rejecting the petition, the FCC likely hopes to defuse that argument. Consumer Watchdog, an activist group, petitioned the FCC in June to support a technology that would allow consumers to signal to Web sites that they did not want to be tracked. By clicking a button in their browser settings, users would have been able to send a “do not track” message to Web site operators when they surfed the Internet. Some Web sites have committed to honoring those requests voluntarily, but many do not. If it had succeeded, the petition could have made Do Not Track a US standard.
benton.org/headlines/fcc-says-it-cant-force-google-and-facebook-stop-tracking-their-users | Washington Post | ars technica | The Hill
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INTERNET/BROADBAND

GOP LAWMAKERS MAKE THE CASE FOR NET NEUTRALITY GRIDLOCK
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Brian Fung]
If lawmakers in Congress can't figure out how to handle network neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission shouldn't be allowed to, either. That's the argument Rep Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and a handful of other GOP lawmakers are making before a federal appeals court in Washington, in a high-stakes legal battle over the future of the Internet. The lawmakers' filing takes aim at the FCC's net neutrality rules, which went into effect earlier in the summer and seek to regulate Internet providers, such as traditional telephone companies. Rep Blackburn and her colleagues say Congress never explicitly gave the FCC the appropriate permissions to do that. Pointing to the 18-odd times Congress has tried and failed to reach a consensus on net neutrality, the lawmakers say the legislative gridlock itself provides evidence of an FCC power grab. "That Congress spent nearly a decade struggling with whether and how to regulate the Internet does not provide a justification for the FCC to bypass that process," the filing reads. It adds that the country's system of government was purposefully designed to ensure that large, significant decisions would not be made without "careful deliberation." The FCC maintains that, as an independent agency, it always had the freedom to regulate Internet providers more strictly under powers granted to it in the Communications Act. That's the set of authorities it initially received from Congress.
benton.org/headlines/gop-lawmakers-make-case-net-neutrality-gridlock | Washington Post
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STATES NEED TO FOCUS ON THE BROADBAND INTERNET ECOSYSTEM IN ENFORCEMENT MATTERS
[SOURCE: Morning Consult, AUTHOR: Stuart Brotman]
[Commentary] During the week of Nov 9, three of the leading US broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) -- Verizon, Cablevision Systems and Time Warner Cable -- will be filing responsive reports with New York State’s attorney general’s office. That office, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, launched a recent probe regarding whether these ISPs did not deliver the actual broadband Internet speeds that had been advertised to consumers. The ISP responses, which are expected to vigorously contradict the allegations, will present items that have specifically been requested for government review, such as proof of disclosures made to customers as well as any testing around Internet speeds. The New York State Attorney General’s inquiry may be looking too narrowly at only a single element of one part of a complex ecosystem -- speed of delivery (which itself may be affected by such individualized factors as the quality and placement of an in-home router, along with the size of a particular residential dwelling unit). If other states frame their inquires in similar ways, they may repeat the same conceptual mistake of equating broadband Internet speed with broadband Internet value. Instead, the better approach would be to begin any future investigation with the broadband Internet ecosystem as the central principle upon which all current and future policy discussions need to account for; anything less cannot help but be piecemeal. Without this essential holistic view, state law enforcement officials may be able to achieve quick fixes, but they also may create negative unintended consequences in the larger broadband Internet ecosystem at play.
[Stuart N. Brotman teaches at Harvard Law School]
benton.org/headlines/states-need-focus-broadband-internet-ecosystem-enforcement-matters | Morning Consult
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ELECTION 2016

WILL RICK SANTORUM BE THE NEXT HOST OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE?
[SOURCE: Benton Foundation, AUTHOR: Andrew Jay Schwartzman]
[Commentary] When Donald Trump serves as the host of Saturday Night Live (SNL) on Nov 7, won’t all the other candidates get equal time to be hosts of the show as well? The answer is no, but some of the other Republican candidates for President may well claim a right to receive air time on a number of NBC stations. This post will discuss the law surrounding Trump’s appearance. A forthcoming post will discuss political broadcasting law more broadly.
benton.org/headlines/will-rick-santorum-be-next-host-saturday-night-live | Benton Foundation
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MEDIA ETHICS
[SOURCE: Bloomberg, AUTHOR: ]
Traditionally, the relationship between the candidates and the media has been adversarial. Now, it's more symbiotic. In an era of fragmented media and increased competition for ad dollars, candidates are not only news sources but revenue sources as well. The campaigns recognize their financial value to the networks, and are trying to leverage that to change the debate formats to their terms. "It's really dangerous journalistically and ethically," former CNN anchor Aaron Brown said. "I worry, as long there's money in a tough economic environment for journalists, that news organizations will take the money and not see the danger." Why, for instance, would NBC choose to rekindle its relationship with Trump, giving him one of the biggest platforms in late-night TV, just months after its parent company fired the real estate mogul from the reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice over his politically incorrect comments? Lauren Roseman, a spokeswoman for "Saturday Night Live,'' declined to comment. But no one summarized the rationale more pithily than the campaign's reality TV veteran. "The networks are making a fortune with the debates," Trump said. He suggested the stars of the show ought to be getting a cut. "We should be like a basketball player,'' Trump said. "We should go on strike and say we want money for Wounded Warriors or a great charity.''
benton.org/headlines/trumps-snl-role-raises-questions-about-media-ethics-media-not-troubled | Bloomberg
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TRUMP AND FREE MEDIA
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Ashley Parker]
Donald Trump hosted “Saturday Night Live” and gave interviews to at least four national television networks the next day. The result: an opportunity to reach millions of potential voters, without spending a dime. In fact, while many of his Republican presidential rivals have poured money into the airwaves in search of such exposure, Trump has not spent any money at all on television advertising since he announced his candidacy in June. Yet he has remained at or near the top of most national and state polls for months. “TV ads are necessary, they can be effective, but in terms of overall value, being the host of ‘Saturday Night Live’ is probably going to get you a lot more as a candidate than 20 ‘super PAC’ ads,” said Dave Levinthal, senior political reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. Trump’s ability to command media attention and reach voters without depleting his campaign funds is just the latest example of the way that his campaign has upended the conventional approach candidates have used to communicate with voters.
benton.org/headlines/donald-trump-advertises-rising-value-free-political-publicity | New York Times
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DEAR REPUBLICANS: NO, THOSE 'BIASED' DEBATES AREN'T HURTING YOU. AT ALL.
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jim Tankersley, Scott Clement]
[Commentary] Republican presidential candidates spent a lot of time hammering out a list of demands for television networks, in hopes of improving the quality of upcoming debates. Which is interesting, because there’s no evidence that the debates -- while certainly frustrating for the candidates at times -- are hurting the GOP’s chances of winning back the White House in 2016. If anything, in fact, they might be helping -- unless you’re Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). The GOP debates have produced greater awareness of lesser-known candidates, including the rise of Carly Fiorina, which shows GOP voters are responding to what they see the candidates saying to each other on screen (or at least to news reports and commentary around the debates). The debates also are not exacting any significant damage to candidates’ reputations with political independents, according to Gallup data. If there’s any complaint for Republicans in the debates, then, it might be that they’re not helping the field enough. Gallup still shows independents view the GOP candidates, on average, more unfavorably than favorably. Quinnipiac shows the candidates are view just slightly more favorably than not. In both cases, though, most candidates' ratings are at least holding steady – even as they're not nearly as high as the party probably would like them to be
benton.org/headlines/dear-republicans-no-those-biased-debates-arent-hurting-you-all | Washington Post
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CHANGES TO DEBATE FORMAT COULD BETTER SERVE VOTERS, CANDIDATES
[SOURCE: WTTW, AUTHOR: Alexandra Silets]
Since the widely panned Oct 28 GOP debate, there has been a lot of discussion over what sort of format and approach upcoming debates should take to best serve not only the candidates but more importantly, the voters. “It was deplorable on all counts. It was embarrassing really on the part of both the candidates, the Republican National Committee, which was involved in negotiating it, and some of the journalists,” said Newton Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission under President John F. Kennedy. Minow has been called the father of televised presidential debates and he co-chaired the 1976 and 1980 US presidential debates. “The purpose of the debate is to educate the voters so that they can make intelligent decisions about who to support. In this case, it became a debate about the debates rather than a debate about the issues.” Jim Warren, the national political writer for US News & World Report and chief media writer for the Poynter Institute, disagreed. “I don’t think it was anywhere near as bad as Newt suggests. I think it was very untidy," Warren said. "I think a lot of that stems from the fact that you have an impossible structural reality at this point of 10 -- count ‘em 10 guys -- who over two hours you expect to perhaps have a serious discussion of policy at the same time.”
benton.org/headlines/changes-debate-format-could-better-serve-voters-candidates | WTTW
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NBC ALL FOR PRINCIPLE, BUT RATINGS COME FIRST
[SOURCE: Boston Herald, AUTHOR: Mark Perigard]
[Commentary] NBC buried Donald Trump in June. After Trump’s cracks calling Mexicans rapists and accusing them of bringing crime and drugs to the US, the network couldn’t fire him fast enough. It kicked him off “Celebrity Apprentice” and banished his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. “At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values,” the network announced righteously. Funny how those cornerstones crumble when it comes to ratings. The Donald is scheduled to host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on Nov 7. In the months since the peacock network exiled Trump, he has proved to be a boon for every other network he goes near. He’s helped deliver blockbuster numbers for primary debates on Fox News and CNN, which have typically registered figures somewhere between a Saturday morning on C-Span and a coma. All the while, he’s been doubling down on his rhetoric about an immigrant menace. NBC refuses to comment on its reversal, but others are raising their voices.
benton.org/headlines/nbc-all-principle-ratings-come-first | Boston Herald
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DONALD TRUMP HATES THE MEDIA. BUT ESPECIALLY POLITICO.
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Callum Borchers]
[Commentary] In case we forgot, Donald Trump reminded us that he’s not exactly a big Politico fan. On SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” the Republican presidential candidate called the political news site “one of the most dishonest organizations I’ve ever dealt with.” “It is not true what they write, generally,” Trump said. “I mean, they write some true stuff. … I can only tell you as pertains to Trump. I have had more false and dishonest articles from Politico than, I think, anybody else. And that’s saying something -- to the point where we don’t deal with them anymore.” What irked him this time was an article by Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben Schreckinger that reported Trump previously (and quietly) courted mega-donors Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer and the Koch brothers -- conservative backers from whom Trump has publicly distanced himself, boasting that his personal wealth makes him unbeholden to outside interests, such as them. Trump said the report is untrue. The business mogul has made a habit of trolling Politico on Twitter in recent months -- with Politico and some of its writers trolling him right back, in some cases. Here's the thing about Trump's media feuds, though: They never last. Remember when he said he wouldn't appear on Fox News anymore? He was back on "The O'Reilly Factor" a week later. It's almost as if, when it comes to media outlets, Trump is a bit fickle.
benton.org/headlines/donald-trump-hates-media-especially-politico | Washington Post
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IS DONALD TRUMP FINALLY LOSING HIS MEDIA MOJO?
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Kalev Leetaru]
[Commentary] Something remarkable has been happening for the past six weeks: Donald Trump is no longer utterly dominating television coverage of the 2016 presidential race. Within a week of entering the race Trump utterly dominated television mentions of the candidates. However, starting Sept. 20, in the aftermath of the second Republican debate, Trump’s total daily mentions drop precipitously and have never recovered. Converting from raw mentions to the percent of all mentions garnered by each candidate, since his entrance into the trace Trump accounted for 40-50 percent of all television mentions of candidates from either party. Since October he has accounted for just 20-30 percent of all mentions, with Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Dr Ben Carson, and Sen Rubio (R-FL) all enjoying greater coverage. Carly Fiorina’s bump in coverage after the second GOP debate has largely faded, while Dr Carson and Sen Rubio both seem to be on the upswing. With Trump continuing to fall in both overall mentions and debate excerpts, it leaves open the question of whether we are seeing the end of the Era of Trump or whether winning and losing on television no longer means winning or losing at the polls and we are instead seeing the end of the Era of Television in American politics.
[Kalev Leetaru is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security]
benton.org/headlines/donald-trump-finally-losing-his-media-mojo | Washington Post
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DOZENS OF HIGH-PROFILE HISPANICS WRITE BLISTERING OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP
[SOURCE: Huffington Post, AUTHOR: Carolina Moreno]
Dozens of prominent Hispanic figures from across the political divide have come together to formally "condemn" Donald Trump and the comments the GOP candidate has made against Latinos since the beginning of his presidential campaign. In a blistering statement published in Spanish on Univision.com, 67 scientists, historians, award-winning authors, lawyers and more from the United States, Latin America and Spain signed a statement denouncing Trump's behavior and asking the American people to "stop tolerating his absurd views." Among the most controversial comments and actions cited in the statement include Trump's remarks on Mexican immigrants -- who he called criminals, "rapists" and drug traffickers in June -- and his removal of prominent journalist Jorge Ramos from a press conference in August. The group also states that some of Trump's political proposals, which include building a massive wall along the Mexican border and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, would be detrimental to the United States. The statement's extensive list of signees includes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz, Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican actors Diego Luna and Demián Bichir.
benton.org/headlines/dozens-high-profile-hispanics-write-blistering-open-letter-donald-trump | Huffington Post
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TELEVISION

NCTA, PAY-TV LAWYERS MEET WITH FCC, TRY TO SHOOT DOWN TECH INDUSTRY'S ALLVID PUSH
[SOURCE: Fierce, AUTHOR: Daniel Frankel]
Lawyers for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and every major pay-TV company met with commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to block supporters of the AllVid technology for set-top boxes. The "burdens" imposed by AllVid "would handicap multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), particularly small MVPDs that lack the necessary resources to reconfigure their networks and deploy new adapters required by the new AllVid proposal, but would not apply to online video distributors (OVDs) or retail device manufacturers," said the National Cable Telecommunications Association, in a memo to FCC Secretary Marlene Dortch. From Comcast to Charter Communications to AT&T/DirecTV to Bright House Networks, counsel for every major pay-TV operator, save for Verizon and Cablevision, was represented in the meeting. AllVid is one of two tech proposals rendered over the summer by the FCC's Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC), a committee set up to find a new technology that would enable retail set-top devices to work in the pay-TV ecosystem. Google, Amazon, TiVo and other technology/consumer electronics companies have thrown their support behind AllVid. This technology would employ a kind of bridge device that would securely decode pay-TV signals and render them usable on set-tops consumers purchase at retail rather than those they could lease from their cable, satellite or telecommunication provider. The pay-TV industry has been stridently opposed to AllVid since DSTAC proposed it as a possible solution to the retail set-top issue in late August.
benton.org/headlines/ncta-pay-tv-lawyers-meet-fcc-try-shoot-down-tech-industrys-allvid-push | Fierce
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SPECTRUM/WIRELESS

SPECTRUM BILL
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Brian Fung]
Under the draft text of a bill now being informally considered by the Senate Commerce Committee, the government could be instructed to find and relinquish an additional 20 megahertz of publicly owned spectrum beyond the 30 MHz President Barack Obama agreed to when he signed the two-year budget deal. Agencies would be required to auction off the total 50 MHz by 2024. The move accelerates an important push by industry and lawmakers to build a long-term "spectrum pipeline" designed to ensure that the country's wireless communications networks can keep growing. The draft legislation provides other incentives to speed up the deployment of mobile and wired Internet access. To encourage government agencies to give up the spectrum they currently hold but may not be using, the draft bill proposes to give them up to a 25 percent cut of auction proceeds. It would enshrine into law a voluntary commitment in 2010 by President Obama to clear up 500 MHz of spectrum by 2020. And it includes an idea that would make it easier for Internet providers to lay down new networks, known as "dig once."
benton.org/headlines/senate-wants-make-way-more-spectrum-available | Washington Post
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CELLULAR AND WI-FI NEED TO GET ALONG BETTER
[SOURCE: Revere Digital, AUTHOR: Mark Lowenstein]
[Commentary] Comcast’s announcement that it is triggering the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) relationship with Verizon, and plans to test a “Wi-Fi First” wireless service over the next few months will once again shine a spotlight on the relationship between cellular and Wi-Fi. My view is that there are still some significant usability challenges that must be addressed before a “Wi-First” service, as I call it, is ready for prime time. First, there continue to be issues related to how phones switch between “Wi-Fi mode” and “cellular mode.” Put simply, smartphones still often default to a Wi-Fi hotspot, even if the signal is weak or it is congested. The second major issue is that Wi-First services must be available on the majority of devices users already own. Today, services from MVNOs such as Republic, Scratch and Google only work on a handful of devices customized with purpose-built software for Wi-First. If Wi-First services aren’t available on the leading iOS and Android devices, they’ll never have broad appeal.
[Mark Lowenstein is the managing director of Mobile Ecosystem]
benton.org/headlines/cellular-and-wi-fi-need-get-along-better | Revere Digital
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US PUSHES FOR SPECTRUM FOR 5G, CIVIL DRONES, FLIGHT TRACKING
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Tom Miles]
The United States wants a global deal to reallocate parts of the radio spectrum for the next "5G" generation of mobile devices, a boom in civilian drones and a worldwide flight tracking system, senior US officials said. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said that world powers would have to decide whether to follow the US example in allocating more of their spectrum to mobile telephony. "The big question here is will the other countries of the world be participating in meeting that spectrum need in a way that produces scope and scale economies that allows the wonder of wireless and truly the transformative power that this represents to individual human beings, let alone to economies," he asked. The United States will start auctioning part of its VHF spectrum on March 29, 2016, and wants others to join in to reduce costs for global business. Chairman Wheeler was speaking during the first week of the month-long World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, held every four years by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union. Ambassador Decker Anstrom, head of the US delegation to the conference, said there were a "variety of views" among delegates on the issue, and on another debate about spectrum for civilian drones, which are expected to become an $80 billion business in the United States alone over the next decade.
benton.org/headlines/us-pushes-spectrum-5g-civil-drones-flight-tracking | Reuters
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HEALTH

BROADBAND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND THE UNDERSERVED -- WHY WE SHOULD CARE
[SOURCE: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, AUTHOR: John Sharp]
For many of us, broadband and high speed wireless communication are now part of everyday life. Yet many still lack even basic access to the internet through broadband. And the impact on health and healthcare is what the Federal Communications Commission wanted to highlight by hosting roundtables in Cleveland (OH) and Detroit (MI) during the week of Oct 26. The invited presentations meant FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn and her staff could learn more about what was happening in the revival of this industrial city and who was still left behind. The discussion began with a presentation on two parallel initiatives in Cleveland to expand the availability of broadband and add health technology job development. One Community is a non-profit broadband provider that connects major institutions throughout the community, including hospitals, universities, and also, the Health-Tech Corridor with office space for startup tech businesses. The roundtable concluded with presentations by some of the winners from the Cleveland Medical Hackathon. These apps show creative approaches to address health problems in underserved communities. Why should we expand broadband as a resource to all? One of the primary incentives in healthcare is population health. If provider organizations want to reach out to patients in the community using mobile devices, the patient homes need broadband access or these initiatives will fail.
benton.org/headlines/broadband-health-technology-and-underserved-why-we-should-care | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
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SENIORS

SENIORS TECHNOLOGY SURVEY: 80 PERCENT WOULD USE MORE ICT WITH TECH SUPPORT
[SOURCE: telecompetitor, AUTHOR: Andrew Burger]
Eight in 10 seniors would make greater and more frequent use of information and communications technology (ICT) if they had ready access to technical support and assistance, according to in-house customer-based market research carried out by Bask. Well over 8 in 10 survey respondents agreed that ICT can help them live longer in their own homes. Four in 10 (39 percent) said they felt only somewhat connected or not connected at all to their families. Among this group, nearly 8 in 10 (78 percent) agreed that being able to use ICT would help them connect with family and friend to a greater degree. Bask’s findings reinforce results of other research, such as Brookdale Senior Living’s ¨Rewiring Aging,¨ in which researchers found that more than one-quarter (27 percent) of seniors over 80 are ¨virtual shut-ins.¨
benton.org/headlines/seniors-technology-survey-80-percent-would-use-more-ict-tech-support | telecompetitor
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SECURITY

NSA AND SECURITY FLAWS
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Joseph Menn]
The National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities in computer software, thereby leaving US companies open to cyberattacks, said that it tells US technology firms about the most serious flaws it finds more than 90 percent of the time. The re-assurances may be misleading, because the NSA often uses the vulnerabilities to make its own cyber-attacks first, according to current and former U.S. government officials. Only then does NSA disclose them to technology vendors so that they can fix the problems and ship updated programs to customers, the officials said. At issue is the US policy on so-called "zero-days," the serious software flaws that are of great value to both hackers and spies because no one knows about them. The term zero-day comes from the amount of warning users get to patch their machines protectively; a two-day flaw is less dangerous because it emerges two days after a patch is available.
benton.org/headlines/nsa-says-how-often-not-when-it-discloses-software-flaws | Reuters
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GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS

OBAMA’S ONLINE VOICE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Julie Hirschfeld Davis]
There’s a push at the White House to build up a social media presence for President Barack Obama in his own voice. The goal is to bring a sense of spontaneity and accessibility to one of the world’s most choreographed and constricted positions. Leading the charge is the Office of Digital Strategy, a team of roughly 20 aides who spend their days managing his Twitter account and the White House Facebook page, Instagram account and YouTube channel. Led by Jason Goldman, a 39-year-old former executive at Twitter, Blogger and Medium, the team has a variety of tasks, including live-tweeting presidential speeches in 140-character squibs from the White House Twitter account and using analytics to track which issues may be most ripe for a web video or graphic and then producing them. More than anything else, they are looking for ways to establish a digital identity for President Obama. They say the old conventions of White House communications — a major policy address, a television or newspaper interview or a written statement — are less and less effective.
benton.org/headlines/digital-team-helping-president-obama-find-his-voice-online | New York Times
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November 2015

Governments have gone to war on Internet freedom

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Slams Ben Carson's Claim That The Media Have Unfairly Scrutinized Him

CNN's Alisyn Camerota Shuts Down Ben Carson's Complaints As "An Attack On Journalism"

The Political Broadcasting Rules: A Refresher Course

Can I say that? A legal primer for journalists

Why doctors still don't text or email their patients

November 9, 2015 (Trump's 'SNL' Role; FCC & Online Privacy)

NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws

A Digital Team Is Helping President Obama Find His Voice Online

Trump's 'SNL' Role Raises Questions About Media Ethics. Media Not Troubled.