Monday, June 27, 2005
QUERY: To the Newspaper Association of America about Brand X
Sheila Owens
VP, Strategic Communications
sheila.owens@naa.org
(703) 902-1682
Zachary Brousseau
Communications Manager
zachary.brousseau@naa.org
(703) 902-1698
Sheila/Zachary:
Will NAA have a statement about the Brand X decision?
I would think newspaper publishers were be really alarmed. Look forward a
few years and image that Time-Warner CNN website is competing with local
news against a local paper. What is now to stop Time Warner cable from IP
blocking access by its customers to the newspaper's website?
In effect, this means that as newspapers port their principal product to
the web, they are losing control of their means of publishing. Will they
have to pay "carriage fees" to Time Warner, or Comcast, or Verizon?
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Bill Densmore, director
The Media Giraffe Project
Journalism Program
Department of Communication
108 Bartlett Hall
Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst MA 01003
OFF: 413-577-4370 / CELL: 413-458-8001
densmore@journ.umass.edu
