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title: How news spreads through the Internet
date: "2002-05-23T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1323
description: I explore Staci Kramer's analysis of how news about Turner Broadcasting's controversial stance on ad-skipping spread across the early internet, tracing its path through legal sites and personal blogs to illustrate digital information flow.
keywords: [news propagation, turner broadcasting, ad-skipping, staci kramer, digital copyright, information flow]
---

Staci Kramer interviewed the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (who, among other things, said stuff like not watching ads is theft). Staci traces how news of this [spread through the Internet](http://www.ojr.org/ojr/kramer/1022087318.php) into sites like [top 10 copyright crimes](http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=198) and "[But Daddy I need to go](http://www.onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000101.html)".