What Network Neutrality Is REALLY About > Ad hominem attack on Jenkins won't work

Thanks to said wonks, we're still having the exact same debate we were back in 2005 as this painful editorial in the Wall Street Journal attests. Say hello, Mr. Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

That idea, like most of Mr. Jenkins' editorial, comes directly from the brains of phone company lobbyists who are now fighting new network neutrality rules at both the FCC and in Congress.

About Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal and writes editorials and the weekly Business World column.

Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. In April 1997, he returned to the Journal's New York office. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and studied at the University of Michigan on a journalism fellowship.

Mr Jenkins background does nothing to justify the attempt to portray him as a tool of the telco lobbyists.

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Mr Jenkins background does nothing to justify the attempt to portray him as a tool of the telco lobbyists.

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No, you're right. His words do a fine job.

So then, anyone who agrees with telcos, even if they have no affiliation with them, is by your definition a tool of said telcos.