Some public-interest groups have alleged that such paywalls discourage people from dumping their cable subscriptions and buying channels like ESPN individually online.
Public-interest groups, hoping to hold the Louisianans and others to past promises, are dredging up newsclips in which the lawmakers are quoted as saying they will vote for McCain's bill.
So Britain is wise to include public-interest groups and consumer representatives on the advisory committees that are being set up to look at the social and ethical aspects of biotechnology.
Americans on below-average incomes are much less likely than well-off ones to have university degrees, but of those among them who join large public-interest advocacy groups, at least three-quarters are graduates.
His position required Maehara to confront the vested local government and public works interest groups for on-going or planned pork-barrel public works projects, including some notoriously wasteful and unnecessary dams.