MMMM # 426 -- Define Journalist, and finding your high-speed Internet

     What is a journalist? The question comes up each semester in the class I teach at Trenholm Tech in Montgomery.

     John Miller told CBS This Morning journalists are "almost the same" as a CIA intelligence officers. I wasn't sure who was more insulted by the comparison, the spies or the reporters!

Some Random notes:

•      The Columbia Journalism Reviews site has a list that old(er) journalists like myself need to read. Twice. Really. 

• Who knew? There is an FCC website that allows you to find out what high-speed Internet service is available where you live. Just enter your address. Here's the site.

• Yes, I knew there was something of a revolving door in government...out-of-office U.S. Senators go to work for companies looking for influence..in the Senate. Retired Generals go to work for defense contractors, etc etc. But I did not know that former FCC Chairman Michael Powell is now head of The National Cable and Telecommunications
  
  Association! So just how much compassion did he have for viewers during his FCC time? He was interviewed on NPR Sunday, and I am sure you will be shocked to know he defended the cable TV industry's virtual monopoly on high speed Internet service to the bitter end.

• The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether a company is violating copyright by taking network TV signals and reselling them to online customers.

[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of Tim Lennox.com]