Category Archives: Politics

He can win a Putlitzer, but he can’t get his work into Apple’s app store

Cartoonist Mark Fiore this week became the first online-only jour­nal­ist to win a Putlitzer Prize, win­ning the edi­to­r­ial car­toon­ing prize for his work with SFGate. However, when Fiore tried to sub­mit an app to Apple’s online store con­tain­ing the same edi­to­r­ial con­tent, he was rejected. The rea­son? His app con­tained con­tent that, in Apple’s judge­ment, [...]
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Our latest Chronicle video

I put this video together today from footage shot by one of our paper’s pho­tog­ra­phers at the Tea Party rally in Bozeman. Enjoy, and if you’d like to see more of my paper’s videos, well, you know what to do.
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Court: FCC does not have the authority to regulate net neutrality

The FCC does not have the author­ity to enforce net neu­tral­ity, a fed­eral appeals court ruled today. The case cen­tered on the FCC’s 2008 deci­sion to ban Comcast from throt­tling file-sharing ser­vices for video and TV shows, Reuters and the Associated Press report. Before the court deci­sion, Amit Schejter, pro­fes­sor of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­icy at Penn State, [...]
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Obama rumor mailed to newsroom makes me sad

The fact that people will send e-mails like this to not only one newsroom but several makes me very sad.
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Stimulus money, tennis courts and Baucus accusations

Two stories, alike in Web buzz, in fair Montana, where we lay our scene. One gets mainstream coverage; the other doesn't. Why?
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