Astroturfing gone bad.
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JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing
JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing
05/21/2004 03:47 PMOf Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And
Figuring Out What The Real Story Is
Of Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And
Figuring Out What The Real Story Is
02/05/2005 09:49 PMIt's been pretty fascinating to watch this story develop over the past
few days. Of course, it's nothing new to find out that supposedly
"objective" research was actually carried out to favor a specific
interest, but congratulations should go out to Glenn Fleishman for
focusing the attention on the real story here. The background is that
an organization called the New Millennium Research Council came out
with a report which seemed to suggest that all municipal broadband was
pure evil (well, not exactly, but that's how the pre-release info made
it sound). Glenn took it upon himself to
pull back some of
the curtain on the folks who were behind the report. eWeek then
took
that a step further, and suddenly the "story" was no longer about
the evils of municipal broadband -- but the sketchy connections
between powerful telco interests who have been fighting as hard as
they can against any kind of competition and the group that wrote the
study. Glenn later gave a
thorough review
of the actual report, where he notes it's not nearly as bad as it had
appeared from the initial leaks, and that it does raise some valid
points. However, the real story is the
underhanded way in
which this report was written, with money being funnelled from a
group supported by the big telcos to what appears to be nothing more
than a front organization to write up reports that favor its funders.
Now, others are
picking up on the astroturf attempt, rather than the
study itself.
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