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- Fighting the Jackson fine: how First Amendment lawyers would attack the FCC's ruling.(Top of the Week)
- CBS will likely go to court to fight the FCC's $550,000 fine that the network received for airing Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast flash. If and when the court battle arrives, say First Amendment lawyers, the company will have plenty of avenues of CBS...
- Research articles 2004-09-27
- FreedomWorks Supports the First Amendment at FCC Field Hearing ; Grassroots Activists to Attend Oct. 3 FCC Public Hearing in Los Angeles
- To: State DeskTo: State Desk
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Tough talk on First Amendment.(Fast Track)(United States Constitution. 1st Amendment)(regulations of broadcast journalists)(Brief Article)
- The White House, the courts and the FCC all took hits from broadcast journalists who said last week that they were feeling under fire from a manipulative and even malicious government. NBC News President Neal Shapiro set the tone, telling a ro...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Why cable needs to keep eye on stern: FCC asked to add satellite radio to rules barring broadcast 'indecency'.(Federal Communications Commission)
- WASHINGTON -- When Howard Stern agreed last month to jump to satellite radio in 2006, the heavily fined shock jock said he was doing so mainly to escape the grasp of federal indecency laws. But at least one traditional radio company isn't...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- You say you want 'your revolution'. (Editorials: Committed to the First Amendment).(Sarah Jones sues Federal Communications Commission)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- Performance artist Sarah Jones is suing the FCC over its May ruling that her song was indecent. Good for her. It wasn't anything like indecent, but it was apparently too hip for the room in which the enforcement bureau huddled to render its verdict ...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- Infinity hits the brakes.(Editorials: Broadcasting & Cable committed to the first amendment)(Editorial)
- Infinity did the right thing last week by refusing to pay the FCC's fine for WNEWFM's Opie & Anthony "sex in St. Patrick's" broadcast. It did so in the face of an FCC warning that its licenses could be in jeopardy for future violati ...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- The fall of the first.(the Federal Communications Commission and the First Amendment)(includes mention of FCC's plans for fall 1996)
- What a difference nine years makes;from an FCC that eliminated the fairness doctrine to Reed Hundt and mandatory children's programing In August 1987, broadcasting seemed to be on its way to gaining full First Amendment rights--the same freedom fr What a difference nine...
- Research articles 1996-08-12
- Separation anxiety. (Editorials: Broadcasting & Cable Committed to the First Amendment).(Editorial)
- Perhaps Congress has come to realize that, if the FCC is allowed to further deregulate the broadcast and cable industries, as it has been instructed to do by the Congress itself and subsequently the courts, the government will lose its comfortable Perhaps Congress...
- Research articles 2003-05-19
- Who speaks for the First Amendment? Why the FCC should look before it leaps on children's TV.
- Why the FCC should look before it leaps on children's TV Why the FCC should look before it leaps on children's TV
- Research articles 1994-06-27
- Champion of free speech.(Two Views On The First Amendment)
- First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere has been one of the most successful defenders of free-speech rights. Before the Supreme Court in 1999, he successfully argued against channel-blocking requirements that Congress had imposed on Playboy Telev First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere has been one of...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Big media's foe.(two views on The First Amendment)
- Michael Copps' campaign to clamp down on broadcast indecency is showing results. The history-professor-turned-FCC-commissioner insists he's no less a defender of free speech than his critics. In his view, the FCC has placed too much emphasis on the Michael Copps' campaign to clamp down...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Lights out for Bonzo.(Editorials: broadcasting & cable committed to the first amendment)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- Back in 1991, the FCC modified its political broadcasting rules to restore the common sense stripped from them in the FCC's 1976 Bedtime for Bonzo ruling, when the FCC held that old Ronald Reagan movies triggered broadcaster obligations to provide Back in 1991,...
- Research articles 2003-08-18
- A broader view of broadcasting.(Airtime: guest commentary)(the FCC's media-ownership order is not expected to hold up to the First Amendment)(Column)
- The FCC's recent media-ownership order offers an extremely narrow view of the commission's First Amendment duties. Namely, that it is not "necessarily healthy for public debate to pretend as though all sides are of equal value or entitled to e The FCC's recent media-ownership...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Clinton on communications.(President Bill Clinton)(includes related article on Clinton's telecommunications policy in case of second term)(Interview)(Cover Story)
- Your administration supported the V-chip and the FCC rule that requires TV stations to air three hours of children's educational programing per week. How do you Justify such intrusions Into TV content in light of the First Amendment? Neither ...
- Research articles 1996-09-23
- The Hundtification of TV. (policies of FCC chairman Reed Hundt)
- Reed Hundt is on a roll. The chairman of the FCC is about to bring about a revolutionary change in children's TV policy, having worked uphill against the wishes of half or more of his colleagues and the combined opposition of the broadcasting industr Reed Hundt...
- Research articles 1996-07-08
- Fin-syn will be back, warns former FCC commissioner; Fox's Vradenburg chastises industry for tradition of silence on First Amendment. (financial interest and syndication rules, Federal Communications Commission, Sherrie Marshall, Fox Broadcasting Co., Geo
- If the financial interest and syndication rules that prevent ABC, NBC and CBS from taking an ownership and syndication interest in much of their programing completely disappear, the rules will be back in front of the FCC within two years, a former If...
- Research articles 1993-09-20
- FCC on the offensive.(Editorials: broadcasting & cable committed to the first amendment)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- We understand that Infinity will be fined, and more than the token amount, for indecency by the FCC for the Opie & Anthony stunt, in which WNEW-FM New York listeners were encouraged to have sex in public places and talk about it on air. One of ...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- ACLU joins access fight: group calls securing open access key First Amendment issue. (Top of the Week).(American Civil Liberties Union)(Brief Article)
- The American Civil Liberties Union is hoping to use its free-speech credential to boost the fortunes of those trying to force companies to carry competing Internet providers on their broadband networks. The ACLU, which first announced its supp The...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- First things first: a commentary by Reed Hundt, chairman, Federal Communications Commission. (defining public interest obligations of spectrum license holders)
- A commentary by Reed Hundt, chairman, Federal Communications Commission No values in our society are more important than those advanced and protected by the First Amendment. These values, the bedrock of a free society, are twofold: government A...
- Research articles 1997-03-03
- Playboy Advocate Fights for Speech, Not Porn.(free speech case heard before the Supreme Court)
- WASHINGTON -- Why was an esteemed member of the District of Columbia bar and a proud father of four demanding that the Supreme Court overturn a law that stopped kids from viewing, as conservative Justice Antonin Scalia put it, "Ravin' nymphos WASHINGTON --...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
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