Dan Gillmor: Valenti presents Hollywood’s side …
Dan Gillmor: “A few days ago, I stopped by [Jack Valenti’s, president of the MPAA] office in Washington, armed with a (digital) voice recorder, following through a promise to present his industry’s side of things in this column, which has not been friendly to the MPAA’s members and other big media companies. I made that offer after I heard from a colleague that Valenti, meeting recently with journalists in Los Angeles, had complained about what I’d been writing.”