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: Jerry Brown — the politician I had more fun covering than any other — writes his first blog post. [via Doc]

Open the gates

: Mark Cuban and I give big media the same advice: open the gates, keepers.

: Commenters are pissed at his tone; I was at first, too. He compares us to tabloid lense-snappers. From Cuban, that’s like Bozo the Clown critiquing opera. But the rest of the post is actually OK: It’s about the people watching the powerful anywhere, everywhere.

The enemies of First Amendment

: The House just passed the indecent indecency bill 389-38. As soo as I can, I will put up the names of the brave 38 lawmakers who voted for the First Amendment.

: The Center For Creative Voices in Media — an anti-media-concentration group — says:

Today

Exploding TV: Fat Actress meets fat pipe

: Yahoo will air the first episode of Fat Actress before it airs on Showtime. Damned smart. Showtime will reach a larger audience. Time will tell what the best distribution mechanism is for such programming — or whether that choice is left us us instead of to the industry moguls.

Fighting for the First Amendment

: Even the conservative Heritage Foundation believes the indecency legislation rushing through Congress is indecent. James L. Gattuso just published a paper on the Heritage site trying — late in the day, unfortunately — to get Congress to stop this rush toward regulation and censorship. The good bits:

…However, the proposed solution, increased government restrictions on speech, is fundamentally misguided. Conservatives