Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 05/10/2009 15:33
The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy expressed worry about whether the news industry's financial woes will make for a less educated citizenry and considered whether the government should prop up independent journalists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100302462.html
