The Wavelength, a bi-weekly e-news digest, rounds up the latest developments on the media policy scene. Eric Arnold, of The Media Consortium and the moving spirit behind the e-news publication, has picked some critical media policy issues for its most recent issue: 

• The raging debate on net neutrality
• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's Oakland visit
• FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' speech at the National Conference for Media Reform
• The latest Congressional resolution to repeal the FCC's Net Neutrality regulations
• The Tea Party's attack on net neutrality
• The impact of wireless mega mergers on communities
• A look at federal regulators' scrutiny of Google

Eric Arnold focuses on the raging debate on net neutrality and refers to Truthout's Nadia Prupis' story on the April 8 Congressional resolution to repeal the FCC's Net Neutrality regulations. The vote, which passed 240-179, fell largely along partisan lines, with only six Democrats crossing party lines to support it. Republicans characterized the FCC's regulation of the Internet as a "power grab," questioning the agency's authority to establish guidelines for cyberspace. Despite the partisan rhetoric, the vote was largely symbolic, as the Democratic-controlled Senate is not expected to endorse the resolution.

 The new issue also highlights two important reports: the impact of T Mobile's merger with AT & T on ethnic and immigrant communities; and Nadia Prupis piece on the scrutiny of Google by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice. report Prupis writes: "The DOJ recently approved Google's $700 million deal with travel company ITA Software, but antitrust regulators are concerned that the acquisition may threaten competition in the travel information industry; specifically, the FTC is worried that Google could use the software to direct users to its own sites, depriving similar web sites such as Orbitz, Kayak and TripAdvisor of fair competition."

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