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Facebook will reach 1 billion users. Bear in mind that a registered user doesn't have to equal a human being. It can be a corporation, or a concept, or, well, anyone with an extra email address who has a reason to have an account on Facebook. I wonder how many of the current 300,000 active users are duplicates, or representatives. So, yeah, I think 1 billion registered users is possible.

The FCC should relax its media ownership rules.

The Pulitzer Prizes are not still relevant.

Paparazzi should not be required to obtain permission from the people they photograph.

Twitter is not a fad. It's a tool. It may support fad like behavior, but what makes it not a fad is that the functionality of twitter is re-purposed for multiple disparate types of online behaviors. It's primary use is not even close to what it was designed for. It's real power is the fact that it's so open, and that it allows its community of users to define what it is. Not saying it won't be replaced someday, and that the idea of tweeting your life out in 140 character bursts might end up fading out, but it is definitely not a fad.

TechCrunch should not have published internal Twitter documents leaked to them by a hacker. This is actually a difficult issue for me to take a stand on. On the one hand I support the idea of a robust free press, but on the other, well, I don't see anything particularly news worthy in this illegally obtained information. In fact it's mostly cringe inducing stuff. Having been in internal brain storming sessions where documents like this get generated, you are basically testing out all kinds of different ideas and concepts. They aren't yet corporate policy, and may never be. Those meetings have to be considered private to facilitate the free flow of ideas--good and bad--because that's how innovation happens. If every big company is now afraid of being hacked, and their secrets revealed, well, then there will be no place for that kind of free discussion. ANYWAY, long winded way to say that I wish that TechCrunch had shown a bit more sensitivity. It feels like they were solely motivated by grabbing as much buzz and eyeballs as they could.

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is the best MSNBC evening news program.

Blogs have a negative effect on politics. Hmm, haven't taken a stand on this one yet... I guess I do think that they have a negative effect, mostly because I think they encourage the echo chamber mentality where like speaks to like and there is never a need to step outside your ideological comfort zone. That said, they aren't going away, and on many levels I'm firmly behind the concepts of citizen journalism, and social media/publishing, so I guess politics will have to suffer.

Web sites should not be held legally responsible for user-generated content.

The Internet has had a positive effect on journalism. It's taken me a while to take a stand on this one. Especially because the internet can be an amplifier of the echo chambers out there, but @Nick makes a great point. A thousand people looking at a story will spot different details than just one.

Bloggers should not form a labor union.

Citizen journalism has a positive effect on news reporting.

Bloggers should not be held responsible for comments posted on their blogs by others.

I do feel secure using Craigslist for transactions.

Public broadcasting is the most reliable source for television and radio news.

Craigslist should not remove its 'Erotic Services' listings. Why?

The federal government should not regulate violence on television.

Social networking web sites are not a fad. "A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time" Guess it depends on your definition of a very short time. Social networking has been around since the beginning of the internet, except they were called BBSes. Then there was AOL. Friendster. etc. MySpace may go. Facebook may go. Twitter may go. But some other way of connecting users to their social graph will take their place. Will that be a site? Or a service? Or something new? I don't know. But social networking isn't going anywhere.

President Obama's Tonight Show appearance will have no effect on him politically.

NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games was satisfactory.

Bloggers should be allowed to blog anonymously.

The FCC should not strengthen indecency rules regarding broadcast television.

Advertisements can have artistic value.

The government should not provide financial assistance to the print journalism industry.

Reality television has had a negative impact on the quality of programming.

Al Jazeera is a credible news organization.

Hulu merits a higher valuation than YouTube. This is particularly tricky. YouTube has many more viewers, and many more videos viewed, but it's has been incredibly difficult to advertise on social networks. Hulu on the other hand has far fewer views, but has established content that is far easier to put advertising against. I'd say for now Hulu is definitely more valuable... but if Google ever cracks making money with YouTube, it will have a much higher value.

The news media should not cover celebrities' personal lives.

States should not charge sales tax for online purchases.

Blogs are credible sources of news. They can be. They can also be some idiot ranting about something they know nothing about, or someone willfully distributing misinformation. On the internet, caveat emptor reigns.

The American news media did not appropriately handle coverage leading up to the war in Iraq.

Laws allowing journalists to protect confidential sources should apply to bloggers.

Fox News is not "fair and balanced."

The media does have a social responsibility to promote positive body images.

Newspapers should not be publicly financed.

Jon Stewart's criticism of CNBC was appropriate.

It is appropriate for the President of the United States to make appearances on late night talk shows. I suppose it's sorta the modern version of fireside chats. Part of the job of the pres is to communicate to the people.

MSNBC is politically biased.

Print newspapers will not become obsolete.

Twitter promotes narcissism. How could it not? Admittedly it is just a tool that can be used in a variety of different ways. That said, the call to action to get someone to use it is the simple question "What are you doing?" which presupposes that someone out there on the interwebs is interested in what you are doing. Seems narcissistic to me.