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ATandT is holding out the carrot of providing much higher speed Internet service in 100 U.S. cities...IF the FCC will explain their position on "Net Neutrality".
The company says it will build fiber optic networks---to compete with cable companies, though only a handful of cities have any work done.
And if you look at their own map, you'll find no Alabama cities, and none in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana either.
Only Atlanta is listed in Georgia.
As has been written on this website many times, every citizen has the right to videotape police officers in action, as long as they do not interfere with the officers official activities. Now a 2013 video tape has emerged showing the white Ferguson, Missouri officer who killed unarmed black teen Michael Brown, threatening and arresting a man in Ferguson for doing just that.
Just as the confrontation between Brown and the store clerk minutes before his death was significant to the story, so is this. I hope they are teaching the U.S. Constitution in police academies!
I'll admit it. There is a kind of Tim security roadblock on the information highway that is tough to get past. I don't easily adopt catch phrases like "gone viral". It might have been fresh the first billion times it was used, but in my view, it almost instantly became a cliche.
And--as far as I am concerned--- I don't allow new journalism players to pass without what some will call an unreasonable amount of scrutiny. Some say I require an autopsy. I remember laughing at the very notion of a "Yahoo" News product.
But I read the SundayYahoo Sports story by Pat Forde about Alabama's defeat of Mississippi State, including this wonderful section:
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature or TimLennox.com]
The company says it will build fiber optic networks---to compete with cable companies, though only a handful of cities have any work done.
And if you look at their own map, you'll find no Alabama cities, and none in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana either.
Only Atlanta is listed in Georgia.
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Just as the confrontation between Brown and the store clerk minutes before his death was significant to the story, so is this. I hope they are teaching the U.S. Constitution in police academies!
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Writing:I'll admit it. There is a kind of Tim security roadblock on the information highway that is tough to get past. I don't easily adopt catch phrases like "gone viral". It might have been fresh the first billion times it was used, but in my view, it almost instantly became a cliche.
But I read the SundayYahoo Sports story by Pat Forde about Alabama's defeat of Mississippi State, including this wonderful section:
When you beat the No. 1 team in the country, I think that’s a significant accomplishment,” the coach of the Crimson Tide said. “ … This is a really good football team we beat today.” That team is Mississippi State, 9-0 and No. 1 for the first time in school history, the last overachieving darling standing in this 2014 season. But this is a place where darlings go to die.
Pat Forde was a columnist for ESPN till he took the Yahoo job in 2011. He certainly doesn't need my approval, but a tip of the hat nonetheless. Nice job, even with the funny media name.Florida State has its sod cemetery. Alabama should have one for glass slippers.The Crimson Tide has crushed so many dreams over the years, stomped out so many Cinderellas, that there would be a small forest of tombstones if they interred every beaten underdog. They added one more Saturday night.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature or TimLennox.com]
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