April 23, 2013

Boston and the Modern Manhunt – To the Point on KCRW.

The toll from the Boston Marathon bombings is three dead and 48 still hospitalized with the total number of injured now 264. The surviving suspect’s condition is said to be “fair.” The motivation behind the atrocity may never be known but, in the meantime, there are many other unanswered questions. Cell phones, surveillance cameras and crowd sourcing all helped police to identify and locate the bombers by Thursday, but not before social media and professional news organizations had reported false information. Did shutting down all of Boston give amateur “terrorists” extra impact? Was it a preview of what’s to come?

April 18, 2013

Retired homicide detective Dwayne Stanton and Susan Crawford of the Roosevelt Institute joined Chris Hayes to discuss the Internet proliferation of photos of people who were not suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, despite being distributed by amateur web sleuths.

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Watch Susan Crawford’s interview with Phil Ponce, host of Chicago Tonight.

“Captive Audience” | Chicago Tonight | WTTW.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Susan Crawford presented her book, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age at the New America Foundation.

2/26/13-The Fight Against Telecom Monopolies- Majority Report, Sam Seder

Listen to Susan Discussing the Fight Against Telecommunication Monopolies with Sam Seder

Susan Crawford discusses the fight against telecommunication monopolies with Sam Seder and why the Internet should be treated like a electricity, why wired access is essential for success in today’s economy, why private companies have no incentive to provide universal access, the industry push back against her ideas, why market concentration is so high in the wireless market and educating the public on the need for an communications policy.

2/13/13 Captive Audience  WORT: 89.9 FM, Karma Cavez

Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair