BCT Editorial – 5/18/10

If you don’t get a chuckle out of the Times complaining about alleged misinformation and scare tactics, you haven’t been paying attention to the content of Times editorials.  These traits are SOP for Times pieces.

The editorial talks about what the subject ad allegedly doesn’t say, so let’s look at what the editorial didn’t tell us.

First, the editorial failed to note in April a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously the FCC didn’t have the authority to implement its plan.

Second, the editorial failed to note the FCC now plans to circumvent the decision and Congress by deeming Internet service providers to be utilities and thus subject to FCC control.  Translation: Via the FCC, the Obama administration plans to abuse existing law to get its way.

Third, the editorial failed to note a big backer of the FCC plans is the organization misnamed “Free Press.”  I say the organization is misnamed because its positions are “premised on the idea that newsgathering is a public service” and thus should be government funded.  Does that sound like a free press to you?  Does this sound like an organization that has your best interests at heart?