Thursday, May 25, 2006
Astroturf.Org
The telcos have yet another astroturf organization named TV4US running a plastic-roots campaign for national video entertainment franchising. TV4US has some interesting members, e.g., the Asian Women in Business, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese American Citizens League and the Latino Coalition. Why do these groups care so much about "cable competition"?
Apparently TV4US has been doing a telephone campaign . . . but I can't figure out where the bang for the buck is in that either. Maybe if you just throw your money around . . .
The cablecos -- the NCTA, actually, which is a bona fide industry association, not an astroturf group -- has an amusing site called phoneybaloney.net that makes fun of other Bell astroturf efforts like Consumers for Cable Choice, the Internet Innovation Alliance and the Phoenix Center. Of course, the site is silent on Network Neutrality . . . the cablecos don't like NN either.
Apparently TV4US has been doing a telephone campaign . . . but I can't figure out where the bang for the buck is in that either. Maybe if you just throw your money around . . .
The cablecos -- the NCTA, actually, which is a bona fide industry association, not an astroturf group -- has an amusing site called phoneybaloney.net that makes fun of other Bell astroturf efforts like Consumers for Cable Choice, the Internet Innovation Alliance and the Phoenix Center. Of course, the site is silent on Network Neutrality . . . the cablecos don't like NN either.
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