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1.
Feature Story:
"METAPHORS." Metaphors Are Great Analogies Part
Two.
••••
Troy Cory, entertainer,
co-author of the
'Smart-Daaf
Boys,'
and 'Bank
of America, Tortfeasors,' quotes from
'Smart-Daaf
that,
"the innovators of wireless
were all victims of the RF property seizure
commitment made in 1913. After the U.S. Attorney
General announced the acceptance of AT&T's
Kingsbury Commitment in 1913, and upon the advice
and assurance that the telecom commitment would be
enforced by the U.S. Attorney General's office, the
Signal Corps "Smart Boys" stepped aside and fell
into the background to the wireless monopoly.
CLICK
FOR MORE ABOUT THE KINGBURY
COMMITMENT.
 •••The
fact that the $69-Billion legal action against FCC
hasn't happened yet, and many in TeleCom industry
doubt it will, before May 12, 2008, the 100th year
of the Wireless Telephone™ Patent, is beside
the point. AT&T and Verizon and land-line phone
companies like them are at the mercy of their
stockholders, who understanding that by buying the
Wireless Telephone™ from the NBS100
Radio-Trust, will only enhance the value of their
shares for geneations to come.
•••TVInews
Publications, whom have be on the story for over 50
years, say they are following the Microsoft, Yahoo
stock buyout process very closly -- "to see how the
Wireless Telephone™
deal can worked out in the
deal."
••••
Troy states on the
front cover of this issue, "that purchasing a
Wireless Telephone™ is like buying Yahoo.com,
the Tribune, and tviNews.net for $64-Billion.
Why?
••••
Most poker players
will agree that Yahoo is running out of
options . . . so, now's the
time to call a bluff. Play to quash a potential
deal with Microsoft, "after all, the best way to
earn money, is have a lot of money."
••••
The person who should
know is Sam
Zell, now the
controlling factor in running the LATimes. His
reporters say, "it looks as if Yahoo will be
dragged down the aisle by its suitor, Microsoft, no
matter how loudly Google speaks its peace."
••••
"Benchmark publications like, Variety,
Billboard and the Wall Street Journal all know that
online numbered telephone and IP connections issued
to users can give you the kind of body count the
traditional radio/TV viewer-listener count can't,
said publisher," Josie Cory.
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It's should be noted that when marketing
benchmarks are tied to a SinTrend future attached,
"you'll see Wall Street money markets going every
which way. What does that mean? Think about the
animal culture connected to money markets, the
'bears, bulls' are not going anywhere, but south.
They will be intermingling with the jumping
kangaroo crowd packed with subsidiary takeovers in
their front pocket."
••••
In late February,
their potential mates with deep pockets denied they
would try to beat Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6-billion
offer even as investment bankers tried to help
Yahoo remain unhitched.
••••
The company that Microsoft and Yahoo fear most in
the Internet business -- Google Inc. -- is trying
to quash the deal by a few press releases.
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The day Microsoft Corp. made its bid public, Google
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry
Yang to offer help in fending off the Redmond,
Wash.- based software giant, according to a person
familiar with the discussion. The companies, which
are both based in Silicon Valley, have discussed
having Google run Yahoo's search-engine
business.
••••
Although Yahoo insiders might have more cultural
affinity with their Silicon Valley neighbors,
experts said combining the Web's two biggest search
businesses could be a hard sell to regulators
worried about competition.
••••
"To go from three significant players down to two,
with one having around 75% market share, maybe more
-- I can't believe the antitrust people wouldn't
block that," said Robert Lande, an antitrust law
professor at the University of Baltimore and a
longtime Microsoft watcher.
 Part
02
/ A
few days after the news reports, the following
SinTrend questioning jumped into the Picture:
•••Sabeel,
which is Arabic for "the way" as well as for a
water channel or spring, sponsors international
gatherings that draw hundreds of Christians to
Jerusalem every few years. In the U.S., its support
group has sponsored 23 conferences, including one
in Boston last fall that featured South African
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
•••Ateek
said the language and positions that have brought
Sabeel its most virulent criticism were sermons in
which he has compared the suffering of Palestinians
under the Israeli occupation to the hardships of
Jesus and the early Christians. The group has also
called for U.S. churches to divest from companies
doing business in the occupied territories.
•••Ateek
strongly defended both ideas but said they have
often been taken out of context or manipulated to
imply that he and Sabeel are anti-Semitic because
they criticize the Israeli government.
•••In
his sermons -- especially around Christmas and
Easter -- Ateek said, he has certainly drawn
parallels between Palestinian life today and the
difficulties faced by the faith's founder.
•••"Any
time Christians have been oppressed, they look to
the suffering of Christ to sustain them," he said.
"That is theologically correct and I will always do
it. But I have never said or implied that Jews are
Christ killers, which is one of the things I've
been accused of.
•••"I've
said that we feel there is oppression and injustice
in the occupation and that the Israeli government
is responsible. And that I will never back down
on," he said.
•••Sabeel
has also gained notoriety with its call for
divestment from companies doing business with
Israel. In recent years the call has helped
galvanize such efforts by members of U.S. mainline
Protestant churches.
Part
03 / There are more
Newspeople in Washington than in Orange County --
and that those numbers ought to be reversed - Sam
Zell.
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•••Online
free speech fundamentalists would, no doubt, cite
the McIntyre vs. Ohio Elections Commission ruling
in any defense. Yet that was a ruling focusing on
anonymous "political speech"; Justice John Paul
Stevens' opinion for the court cited the example of
the Federalist Papers, originally published under
pseudonyms, as proof that anonymity represents a
"shield from the tyranny of the majority" and is,
therefore, vital to a free society. But such a
defense doesn't work for cases like the Meier
suicide, in which the anonymous speech was anything
but political.
•••The
Web 2.0 revolution in self-published content is
making the already tangled legal debate around
anonymity even harder to unravel. Take, for
example, the case of Dr. Lisa Krinsky, president of
SFBC International, a Miami-based drug development
firm. In 2005, Krinsky's professional and personal
reputation was so vilified by anonymous critics on
Yahoo message boards that she pursued a lawsuit
(Krinsky vs. Doe) to subpoena the real names of 10
of her online tormentors.
•••Or
take the case of a couple of female Yale Law School
students whose reputations have been eternally
sullied on an online bulletin board called
AutoAdmit by "Sleazy Z," "hitlerhitlerhitler," "The
Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah" and others. Having been
publicly accused of lesbianism with the dean of
admissions at Yale Law School, possessing "large
false breasts" and indulging in exhibitionistic
group sex, the two women filed an amended complaint
(Doe vs. Ciolli) in U.S. District Court in
Connecticut against the operator of AutoAdmit to
reveal the identities of the anonymous critics and
take down their libelous posts.
•••It
is troubling that judges in both cases have failed
to rule in favor of these victims of anonymous
defamation. In the Krinsky case, a California
appeals court ruled last month that her accusers
had a 1st Amendment right to speak their minds.
Although Doe vs. Ciolli (filed in June 2007) has
yet to be ruled on, the plaintiffs had to drop
Anthony Ciolli, the law student in charge of
AutoAdmit, from the suit. This is because the law
treats websites differently than traditional
publishers in terms of their liability for libelous
content. In Section 230 of the 1996 Communications
Decency Act, Congress granted websites and Internet
service providers immunity from liability for
content posted by third parties. So a paper-and-ink
newspaper can be sued for publishing a libelous
letter from a reader, but, under Section 230, Web
bulletin boards like AutoAdmit have no legal
responsibility for the published content of their
users. Thus the students are now pursuing the
identities of their defamers independently of
AutoAdmit -- a near impossible task given the
sophistication of today's software for disguising
online identity.
•••All
three of these cases indicate that the U.S. Supreme
Court soon might need to rethink the civic value of
anonymous speech in the digital age. Today, when
cowardly anonymity is souring Internet discourse,
it really is hard to understand how anonymous
speech is vital to a free society. That New Yorker
cartoon remains true: On the Internet, nobody knows
you're a dog. But it is the responsibility of all
of us -- parents, citizens and lawmakers -- to
ensure that contemporary Web users don't behave
like antisocial canines. And one way to achieve
this is by introducing more legislation to punish
anonymous sadists whose online lies are intended to
wreck the reputations and mental health of innocent
Americans.
•••Andrew
Keen is the author of "The Cult of the Amateur."
ak@ajkeen.com
If Sam Zell the chief executive
of Chicago-based Tribune Co., corporate parent of
The Times, KTLA-TV Channel 5, the Chicago Tribune
and other newspapers and TV stations across the
country is right, when delivering his messages
about priorities to the news staff at The Times'
Washington bureau that things at the newspaper
became quite clear. At the fractious meeting, Zell
said The Times had many more newspeople in
Washington than in Orange County and that those
numbers ought to be reversed. As for foreign news,
Zell has said in other forums that journalists tend
to like it more than readers do.
•
•If Zell's point is
that the real money is in local news, the recent
experience of the Daily News, the Orange County
Register and the regional dailies ringing the Bay
Area -- all more locally oriented than The Times --
has been a discouraging counter example. Their
inability to keep ad revenue from falling at
double-digit percentages year over year has led to
staff reductions that further hobble local news
coverage.
4.
Related Stories
/ MORE FreeSpeach STORY
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•••Wikileaks.org
urges visitors to its website to post leaked
documents as part of a campaign against "unethical
behavior" by corporations and government agencies.
The organization has stated on the site that it has
posted 1.2 million documents over the last several
years, among them an operations manual for the
controversial U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
•••On
Friday, Briggs and bank attorney Evan Spiegel urged
the judge to extend his original injunction, saying
he should protect the privacy rights of customers
whose account information had been posted.
•••But
lawyers for several news organizations, including
the Los Angeles Times, said the judge's earlier
order directing Dynadot to lock down the website
was too sweeping -- the equivalent of shutting down
an entire newspaper on account of one controversial
article.
•••They
argued that the order had violated a bedrock U.S.
legal doctrine known as prior restraint, which
prohibits the government from barring publication
of stories or material before they go to print --
or, in the case of the Internet, before they are
posted.
•••The
groups cited the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, in
which the Supreme Court rejected the Nixon
administration's bid to bar publication of a secret
government history of the Vietnam War.
•••San
Francisco attorney Thomas Burke, representing the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and
several other media groups, said there was no legal
precedent for prior restraint and asserted that the
proper remedy for the bank was to sue for
damages.
•••Bank
attorney Briggs disagreed, citing a California case
involving medical records. Briggs said individual
bank customers risked serious financial harm and
identity theft as a result of the documents being
posted on the Internet. He also asserted that the
information was not newsworthy.
•••The
judge clearly had doubts about that argument. "How
can the court make the determination that this is
not newsworthy?" White asked.
•••He
also acknowledged, in response to arguments from
attorney Roger Myers, that his earlier order did
not come to grips with a "fundamental aspect of the
Internet."
•••"Documents
can move around on the Internet," Myers said.
"That's the reality of the way the Internet
works."
•••"We
live in a very difficult world these days," the
judge conceded. "To the court's way of thinking,
there is a definite disconnect between the
evolution of constitutional jurisprudence and
modern technology. We live in an age where people
can do good things and terrible things without
accountability in a court of law."
•••White
scheduled further hearings in the case but urged
the bank's lawyers to reconsider whether they
wanted to move forward. Briggs said he would keep
the advice in mind.
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Respectfully
Submitted
Josie
Cory
Publisher/Editor
TVI Magazine
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