{"id":1123,"date":"2006-03-23T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2006-03-23T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T16:26:52","slug":"mixed-signals-news-and-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/mixed-signals-news-and-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Signals &#8211; News and Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\">Pew Center for the Study of Internet and American Life reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/178\/report_display.asp\">&#8220;For many home broadband users, the internet is a primary news source.&#8221;<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years. For a group of &#8220;high-powered&#8221; online users &#8212; early adopters of home broadband who are the heaviest internet users &#8212; the internet is their primary news source on the average day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the same time,<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/03\/23\/1348250\"> the US is threatening to create a tiered Internet with positive support from FCC Chief Kevin Martin <\/a>(reports \/. and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkingpipeline.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/fcc_chief_att_c.html\">Networking Pipeline<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>People are learning from the internet instead of watching Fox! This must be stopped (or at least further regulated and tamed)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew Center for the Study of Internet and American Life reports that &#8220;For many home broadband users, the internet is a primary news source.&#8221; : By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}