roundtable: EDUPAGE corrects headline on Telecom Bill and ATandT stance

roundtable: EDUPAGE corrects headline on Telecom Bill and AT&T stance

EDUPAGE corrects headline on Telecom Bill and AT&T stance

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Wed, 25 Oct 95 10:26:40 EDT 

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Date:         Wed, 25 Oct 95 10:26:40 EDT
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      EDUPAGE corrects headline on Telecom Bill and AT&T stance
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>


AT&T URGED TO DROP ADS ATTACKING TELECOM BILL
The word "URGED" was accidentally omitted from this headline in our last
issue, but the item itself was correct, and did not imply that AT&T is
agreeing to cancel the ads.  (It is not.)  The story is that South Dakota
Republican Senator Larry Pressler, sponsor of telecommunications legislation
that would eliminate regulatory barriers preventing local and long-distance
phone companies and cable companies from competing against each other, has
asked long-distance carrier AT&T to pull ads attacking the legislation,
calling the ads misleading.  The Clinton Administration says the legislation
would concentrate power in the media industry.  (New York Times 21 Oct 95
p17).  A New York Times editorial today criticizes CNN, which supports the
legislation, for rejecting AT&T's ads.  The newspaper says that although CNN
is "under no legal compulsion" to carry AT&T's ad, its refusal to do so
"exposes a large danger to the free flow of information that is posed by the
very telecommunications bills that AT&T's ads were designed to defeat."
(New York Times 24 Oct 95 A14)

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