The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu, 366 pages, Knopf Is the open Internet doomed? That's the warning of The Master Switch, an engaging history of American ...

The book’s title comes from a line by Fred Friendly, the longtime CBS News executive, in which he distinguished between free-speech laws and “exclusive custody of the master switch.” ...

Book of the week: The Master Switch by Tim Wu. Columbia professor Tim Wu sees many parallels between early radio and today’s Internet, said Jeremy Philips in The Wall Street Journal.

Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate and author of The Master Switch. He is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one ...