Title: Kentucky a Model for Broadband Expansion
Summary: A Chicago Tribune article that compares the health care crisis in rural Kentucky to the current lack of technology in many areas of the state. It also uses Kentucky as a blueprint for broadband expansion nationwide.
Topic: Should the Obama administration make it a priority to increase broadband access nationwide?
Category: Journalistic, Mainstream
What is it? An online article from the Chicago Tribune.
Publication Information: February 22, 2009
Author: Rebecca Cole: Washington Bureau
Location: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-wired_bdfeb22,0,6274484.story
Accessed: February 23, 2009
Support:
- Dr. Raymond Wells
- President Lyndon Johnson
- A July 2008 Pew Internet American Life Project report
- ConnectKentucky
- Brian Mefford, former head of ConnectKentucky and now chairman and chief executive of ConnectedNation
- ConnectedNation
- Art Brodsky, communications director for Public Knowledge
- Tom Reavis, Tennessee clothes salesman
Most of these sources add to the argument of Kentucky as a microcosm to nationwide broadband expansion. The Pew study gives specific details. Mefford and Brodsky give their professional opinion on the matter.
Audience and Agenda:
The Chicago Tribune is the most circulated newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it is the 8th largest newspaper in the United States. (in terms of circulation) The Chicago Tribune has an average daily circulation of 554,180 readers.
Usefulness:
This article suggests that Kentucky could be a microcosm for the nationwide rural broadband expansion plan. It also made me aware of a major technology corporation, ConnectedNation, which the government may turn to help implement its expansion plans.
Works cited:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-wired_bdfeb22,0,6274484.story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_tribune
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2006/oct/31/business/chi-0610310218oct31
http://www.connectednation.com/who_we_are/
www.connectkentucky.org
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