Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Biggest Issue You Have Never Heard of

I have chosen to join the fight to help stop net neutrality from being taken away. I chose this issue not only because I believe in free speech and use the Internet everyday, but because it is an issue very closely related to my future career: Journalism.
Not only is independent journalism almost totally reliant on the Internet to survive, but it is also becoming more and more the place for mainstream journalism. Big mainstream media companies keep putting more and more money into their online stories and web pages, until on day it will phase out print all together. But for something so important to journalism they seem to be ignoring one of its major issues: net neutrality. The issue has hardly gotten any media attention; it is like the issue doesn’t exist. I myself would not have know about it if someone had not directed me to one of the independent websites commitment to stopping the ending of net neutrality.
I am going to use both my own personal voice to tell people about this issue such as my own blogs and independent publications. On top of that I am going to use my any professional pull I can to get stories about this published in mainstream media outlets. I believe that is the largest problem facing this issue, not enough awareness and that can be rectified by independent blogging as well as finally getting mainstream news coverage. If people were aware of this issue I am sure the will be as outraged as I am and want to do something about it.

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