roundtable: Re: Senate Republican Legislative Memo

roundtable: Re: Senate Republican Legislative Memo

Re: Senate Republican Legislative Memo

Ed Tully (tully@usa.net)
Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:50:09 -0700 (MST) 

From: tully@usa.net (Ed Tully)
Message-Id: <9501132150.AA27438@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Senate Republican Legislative Memo
To: roundtable@cni.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:50:09 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <9501130312.AA16753@athena.capital.edu> from "Jeff Briggs" at Jan 13, 95 03:49:17 pm


> The Republicans telecommunication plan as reported by Hubert does not
> seem to address public access to these new media configurations
> except by paying the concentrations of wealth and political influence
> that own them. What better proof of the function of this party-to
> serve moneyed interests at the expense of public interests.


Does public access mean "free access"? We have public access to the 
telephone system and it is neither free nor subsidized. 

>      Is it naive to contemplate communications from this roundtable 
> to the Republicans to include public access in their agenda? Will Newt 
> listen to opinion coming on his beloved Info Highway that is contrary 
> to his function?
> 
> Jeff Briggs
> jbriggs@capital.edu

If you mean by public access "free access", yes, you are being naive, 
IMHO.

-- 
Ed Tully
<tully@usa.net>

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