From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Barack Obama, technology, and the Internet.

Hello again, I'm Orin-Aulney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The Federal Communications Commission is best known for regulating phone companies and policing nudity and strong language on radio and TV. But the head is FCC. Barack Obama has chosen the man who introduced Facebook and other Internet social networks to political campaigns. His priorities will include expanding broadband access to rural

America and protecting the openness of the internet. Is the FCC up to the task? Or in the age of

Facebook and Twitter, is it so out of touch that it should be abolished? What's Twitter about

anyway? On reporter's notebook later on, The Return of Daylight Savings.

First, here's the news.

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To the Point. Telecommunications technology is changing so fast that federal regulators can barely keep up.

Today we'll talk about internet access, neutrality, and openness as envisioned by the Obama administration.

On reporter's notebook, daylight savings is back this weekend. We'll find out if it really saves energy.

First, this news update. 651,000 people lost their jobs last month for a total of 4.4 million unemployed since December

of 2007 when the recession began.

That's a number President Obama today called astounding.

In Columbus, Ohio, he spoke to 25 police recruits who owe their jobs to the $787 billion stimulus bill he signed less than three months ago.

I don't need to tell this graduating class what it's like to know that your job might be next.

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