Government agencies

House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Internet

The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee contains the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Ed Markey is chairman of the subcommittee and also a blogger for the Huffington Post, which is a liberal news site from which Offthebus.org spawned.


Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission is the government agency charged with plays heavily into the furthering. The Commission plays an important role in ensuring that every American has access to broadband Internet based on Section 706 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The goal was to foster economic growth. The result in regard to the media is that isolated rural areas have access to national and world news that otherwise they may not read. Additionally, any person with access to the Internet can become a citizen journalist, thus expanding the ranks of online journalists.