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Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus
| Think tanks...
Never trust them (conservative, liberal, whatever) to give you the objective facts... They aren't interested in facts and figures, but their agenda and what data they can "find" to support it... I've been saying that for years.
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64 bit CPUs and OSes? That's so 1996.
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eggboard
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join:2000-11-18
Seattle, WA
| That's the fundamental problem here with this report.
There are several institutions involved, none of which reveal their funding sources, and many of which don't even note their membership.
I have written extensively about this issue, and I just want the sock puppets who are posing as objective independent analysts to pull off the sock and let us know who is paying them so we can make up our own minds. I would be happy enough to know why Verizon or Comcast thinks muni wireless is a bad idea.
You can always tell a one-sided report or discussion: things they disagree with are entirely left out. In the first five parts of this six-part report, they don't talk at all about any of the many successes--they could analyze those and explain why they are rare or not actually a success. But they don't. They point to examples that further their cause, which doesn't demonstrate rigor in their thought.
This is true left, right, and center, as badmagicnumber says. |
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Octopussy2
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join:2003-03-30
Batavia, IL
| It was just like when SBC told our residents that fiber was an "unproven technology" during our broadband referendum. Well, now look who is rolling out some fiber? It is all lies to protect the Telco's and cable co.'s bottom lines.
These astroturf organizations and think tanks supported by them, will write whatever it is that the telcos (in this instance)want.
Has anyone ever noticed it is always the same organizations trying to discredit muni-ventures? And they all point back to each other as sources: The Beacon Hill Institute (does cable "research"), The Heartland Institute (muni broadband - I could write a book why they are wrong and prove many of their "failures" listed are successful), Progress and Freedom Foundation, Ron Rizzuto (from Denver), and recently Steven Titch (Senior Fellow from the Heartland Institute). Whenever they need a quote in which to base research done in their footnotes they quote another paper or "research" done by the other one. It is truly laughable. It is one giant circle with each one covering for the other.
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