[CWN-Summit] Putting an end to FUD

[Harold Feld]

I agree this is an issue.  I published an op ed on this on the 
muniwireless.com website and I have been working with Ben Scott and Mark 
Cooper to publish a rebuttal paper to the anti-muni side that we hope to 
release next week.

I recommend that folks in their comunities send independent letters to the 
editor or proposed op ed columns.  You can crib stuff from the letter I 
wrote and is hosted on the Free Press website and has sign on by a wide 
spectrum of groups.  That and the statement of support by the High Tech 
Broadband Coalition (private sector trade groups) issued last week can give 
you ammunition.

If there is interested, I will try to write a "generic" pro-muni op ed for 
folks to customize and submit to their local newspapers (and can also be 
used as a letter to your state rep and city councilor) whether there is 
anti-muni legislation pending or not.  But I'm unwilling to do this unless 
I see some interest in advance, as my schedule is already pretty swamped.

Harold

At 11:11 AM 4/4/2005, Dana Spiegel wrote:
>I'd like to propose that some of us get together and write some articles 
>that (attempt to) put an end to the FUD that's being published by news and 
>industry trade journals. As an example:
>
>http://www.technewsworld.com/story/41931.html
>
>We all know that there are a number of points that are misrepresented 
>here. However, our voices are _not_ being heard. I think its time to go on 
>the offensive, and publish some articles that actually state the truth, 
>instead of the misrepresentations about Muni-networks that are all we see 
>in publications today.
>
>To that end, please email me off list if you are interested in 
>participating. We need (a) people who can write and represent some level 
>of institutional involvement (for example, you are an ISP, work for the 
>gov't, do work through a WCN, etc), and (b) places to publish. For (b), I 
>mean print publications and their online sites. Blogs are great (Glen 
>Fleishman has done a wonderful job here), but they don't reach the average 
>american, and that's who we need to reach.
>
>--
>
>Dana Spiegel
>Executive Director
>NYCwireless
>dana at nycwireless.net
>www.nycwireless.net
>+1 917 402 0422
>
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