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Monday, June 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Comcast censors criticisms of itself and Rep. Carney

The telecom and cable operator rejects an ad, run by numerous other stations and newspapers, bringing to light its lawbreaking and the actions of a congressman who receives substantial donations from Comcast.

Glenn Greenwald

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Monday, June 9, 2008 04:54 PM

raising the stakes?

The evil we face is a symbiant -- one part corrupt public officials, one part their enablers/beneficiaries in the media. The Blue America ads directly target one component, but they have also created an opening for frontal assault on the other.

I know how dollar and time-intensive these kinds of cases are. But we now have a very big fish on the line. So:

-- Do Electronic Frontier Foundation/ActBlue/FAIR/MoveOn/ whoever have the resources to take on Comcast in court?

-- If so, is the best strategy for stopping this symbiant to take on the hundreds of dirty politicians one by one, or to confront the much smaller number of much larger media chokepoints?

-- And should that battle be tactical (fight small battles serially, winning most, but never ending the war) or go for a knockout (refuse to settle short of a Supreme Court/Circuit Court decision)?

—Blue Meme Read Blue Meme's other letters

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