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On The Media presents the story of net neutrality, especially the recent Google-Verizon developments, with the different voices on the issue (advocates, Google, Verizon, FCC) accompanied by different musical leitmotifs from Peter and the Wolf
My favorite line:
If our town square is going to be paved with broadband bricks, then we’d better make sure it’s operating in the interest of all of us and is not under the control of a precious, special few.
-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Net Neutrality, A Musical Intepretation (via On the Media)
In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/
Source: newyorker
