Last week an "expert" study attacking community broadband (and Wi-Fi) was supposed to be a major story, the incumbents who quietly funded it hoping it would be circulated virally by major new outlets as fact (which to some degree it was).

Instead (as we noted in reports on the Heartland Institute and the New Millennium Research Council) the story became how incumbents are waging a concerted disinformation campaign through front groups (see CNET, Wi-Fi Networking News, Techdirt, Eweek, Slashdot) to try and convince the public that wiring themselves for broadband is the root of all evil.

The attention apparently isn't liked by the New Millennium Research Council, the group responsible for distributing Heartland's "study". This week they pulled information (or those on it asked to be pulled) from their website concerning their "board". On that list was several names, two of which head groups with strong financial ties to Verizon Communications.