NETWORK NEUTRALITY: Can there be journalism when the "pipes" are owned by a few companies?

After simmer is a tech-head issue for years, "network neutrality" is becoming mainstream after BellSouth suggest it might be willing to move Internet traffic faster for content originators who want to pay extra. For a set of stories backgrounding this issue, see:
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_346.shtml