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BENTON’S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 (Anno Catulorum!)
World Series –
Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win! [links to Chicago Tribune]
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Go Cubs, Go’ connection [links to Chicago Tribune]
Cubs-Indians Are the Biggest World Series Draw in a Dozen Years [links to AdAge]
Fox’s Spots Sold Out for Game 7 of World Series [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
New ABC and NBC shows hold up vs. World Series [links to MediaLife]
TELEVISION
Justice Department Sues DIRECTV for Orchestrating Information Sharing Agreements with Three Competitors – press release
Rep. C�rdenas: DOJ’s Dodgers Suit Against AT&T Is Troubling [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
It’s Time to Put a Stop to Cable Billing Practices That Hurt Consumers – Public Knowledge [links to Benton summary]
AT&T/TIME WARNER
Demand Progress: More than 115,000 Americans sign petitions opposing the AT&T takeover of Time Warner – press release
The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped – Susan Crawford op-ed [links to Benton summary]
Bewkes: AT&T-Time Warner Merger Creates Advertising Competition [links to Benton summary]
INTERNET/BROADBAND
School Technology Makes Progress, Yet Challenges Remain—CoSN’s 2016 Infrastructure Survey – press release
26 Colorado Communities Will Vote on Building Their Own Internet Networks
Comcast’s gigabit cable will be in 15 cities by early 2017 [links to Ars Technica]
GigUP South Carolina: 11 Carriers Collaborate on Gigabit [links to Benton summary]
TELECOM
Maryland Office of People’s Counsel calls for investigation of Verizon copper retirement notices
Pleading Cycle Established for Comments on AT&T’s Petition for Forbearance from Certain Tariffing Rules [links to Federal Communications Commission]
WIRELESS/SPECTRUM
Are Police Jamming Cell Phones At Standing Rock Protest? The FCC Should Investigate. – Harold Feld blog
FCC Commissioner Pai Pushes Digital Empowerment Agenda at CTIA Wireless Foundation Expo [links to Federal Communications Commission]
PBS, CPB and America’s Public Television Stations Ask FCC to Accommodate Noncommercial Stations in Spectrum Auction Repack [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
Sinclair Equates FCC Repack Deadlines With ‘Death Penalty’ [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
CableLabs Project Eyes Whole-Home WiFi [links to Multichannel News]
Mobile web browsing overtakes desktop for the first time [links to Guardian, The]
Understanding Spectrum Clutter—It’s Not About Neatness! – NTIA [links to Benton summary]
ELECTIONS 2016
FBI never asked Clinton aides for all their devices [links to Benton summary]
Senior FBI officials were told of new emails in early October but wanted more information before renewing Clinton probe [links to Washington Post]
Republicans and Russian hackers have made Hillary Clinton the most transparent candidate in history [links to Vox]
How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth – analysis [links to Benton summary]
Donna Brazile v CNN: Inside the Risky Business of Networks Hiring TV Campaign Surrogates [links to Wrap, The]
Thiel touts outsider Trump but has backed mainstream Republicans — and Obama ally [links to Politico]
Trump’s Reliance on Free Media Coverage Puts Strain on Local Stations [links to Variety]
ABC teams up with Facebook for election night coverage [links to Politico]
If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare? [links to New Yorker]
Swing state poll: the FBI letter totally changed the race — but just for one day [links to Vox]
Trump supporters are trying to trick people into voting by text. You can’t vote by text. [links to Vox]
Op-ed: Donald Trump tries to kill political correctness — and ends up saving it [links to Washington Post]
Donald Trump Supporter Sues NBC, Claims He Was ‘Roughed Up’ by ‘Today’ Show ‘Goon Squad’ [links to Wrap, The]
Donald Trump Will Not Get His Son-In-Law’s Newspaper’s Endorsement [links to Huffington Post]
Video: Trump calls out reporter by name [links to Washington Post]
Republican VP Nominee Mike Pence Praises Rush Limbaugh: "No One’s Covered The Clintons As Thoroughly As You Have" [links to Media Matters for America]
No October Ratings Surprise: Cable News Nets Dominate Monthly Ratings Charts [links to Multichannel News]
Hacked e-mails show Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt played a crucial role in Team Hillary’s election tech [links to Benton summary]
How Twitter Bots Are Shaping the Election [links to Benton summary]
300 newsrooms sign on to monitor voting problems [links to Benton summary]
Mass media has utterly failed to convey the policy stakes in the election – Vox [links to Benton summary]
Google searches for early voting hit an all time high [links to USAToday]
For the First Time in Its 111-Year History, Variety Endorses a Presidential Candidate [links to Variety]
Comedy: Jon Stewart Shows How To Win A Twitter War With Donald Trump [links to Huffington Post, The]
SECURITY/PRIVACY
Standing Rock ‘check in’ marks turning point for activists – op-ed
The next president will face a cybercrisis within 100 days, predicts report [links to CNBC]
Cyber Workforce: A Compound Noun Meaning the Folks Protecting Your Networks [links to nextgov]
Facebook isn’t looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for itself [links to Guardian, The]
Op-Ed: Young adults take more security measures for their online privacy than their elders [links to Washington Post]
We need cooperation to secure the Internet of Things [links to Christian Science Monitor]
CONTENT
Social media ‘influencers’: A marketing experiment that’s metastasized into a mini-economy [links to Washington Post]
YouTube is still having trouble getting people to pay for YouTube [links to Verge, The]
Microsoft takes on Slack with workplace chat tool [links to CNNMoney]
Google Ran Secret Video Ad Experiments and Here’s What It Found [links to Benton summary]
How Anonymous and Other Hacktivists Fight ISIS Online [links to Vice]
Op-ed: Is the Internet the New Sex Education? [links to Education Week]
Facebook blocks insurance company’s plan to base premiums on your posts [links to Ars Technica]
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