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...these days, we'll order our movies, our music, our TV shows, over an Internet that courses through our homes like running water. And in that infrastructure race among media companies to own as many pipes as possible, there are cable people - AOL Time Warner (owner of this reporter), AT&T, Comcast - there are DSL people (the Baby Bells), and there are satellite people, who want to beam everything down to you from...
Steve was pretty accommodating, saying the "columnistic stylings" bit could be used for people on my Buddy List. He said I could get a more flattering cartoon drawing if I just underwent some simple plastic surgery procedures. And in lieu of a cash raise, he offered some AOL stock options. We both had a good laugh over that...
Kaplan's course will discuss current issues facing the media, such as the effects of media mergers on the industry and whether there are diminished rules for reporting sources of late. Guest speakers at his lectures will include Ted Koppel of ABC News, Gerald Levin, CEO of AOL Time Warner and Andrew Hayward, President of CBS News...
...right? It doesn't look as if we will find out any time soon. Under the FCC's terms, AOL Time Warner has to open up its network to competitors before it can offer any "advanced, IM-based high-speed services" that involve streaming video. Big deal. AOL has indicated that it wasn't planning to offer such a service in the foreseeable future anyway...
...AOL gets to keep the walls that separate its instant-messaging system from the rest of the world. But that's going to have to change eventually, not because of the FCC, but because consumers want it. And because it just makes sense...