The Chicago Tribune had this editorial yesterday about net neutrality and it reads just like a phone company talking points paper. From painting pro-net neutrality proponents (Google, Yahoo) as “commercial giants” to trotting out those stupid and discredited FCC data on broadband competition, this editorial is nothing but an apologia for the telcos.
That’s not the best part — the best part is how this lame editorial has set off Mike at TechDirt. He can’t contain his outrage over what he basically contends is the crap flying around in the guise of reasoned debate on this subject. Although he gives both sides of the argument a hard time, today he accuses the telcos of “trotting out all sorts of dishonest statements as if they were fact.”
Mike is mad — he goes on for about 500 words regarding the ridiculousness of it all. (As the first commenter to Mike’s lengthy post notes “see what happens? You write more than one short paragraph and all these ADD sufferers lose you :-P”)
Yeah, all these rhetorical flourishes and perilously false arguments are extreme. They’re caricatures of the real issues, short-hand exaggerations of the true problems at hand. But hey, at this point the whole network neutrality debate is a knife-fight and politics is not pretty.
Cynthia Brumfield at 11:32 AM|Comments(0)
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