Re:The major news outlets are owned by big media (Score 1)

As someone who works in a minor news outlet (the LA WEEKLY) owned by small media (Village Voice Media), I can attest to the fact that news people don't want to cover the Sklyarov case. But it's not a big conspiracy. It's because they don't get it. They can't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to them. And until the people who control technology learn to explain themselves and their work -- without condescending -- to the huddled masses, big stories of civil liberties being traded away for corporate property rights are going to be ignored by the major news organizations. Which is tragic.

I covered the protests this week (comes out Wednesday night online). My editor told me "don't write for the geek audience." So I didn't. But he put "geek" in the headline, nonetheless.