Democracy Isn't Always Free Online
An AP newswire article by Mark Johnson, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
You can watch meetings of the state utilities commission online — but you'll have to pay as if it were WrestleMania or Tyson vs. Holyfield.
Meetings of the state Public Service Commission have become pay-per-view events, with the Texas company that provides live and archived webcasts charging $200 a month — just as it does with other riveting sessions of agency meetings in Texas and California.
"It smacks of pay-per-view democracy," said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. "The governor should put the public back in the Public Service Commission."
posted by Fergie @ 1/11/2006 03:55:00 PM
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