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- Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer refused to talk specifically about TV violence and the First Amendment. (at Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing) (Brief Article)
- Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer refused to talk specifically about TV violence and the First Amendment at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. However, he did say there is a "core" cluster of spee Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer refused...
- Research articles 1994-07-25
- 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
- Tristani calls for violence curbs.(Gloria Tristani, Federal Communications Commission, television programming)(Brief Article)
- Says such programming should be regulated under indecency restrictions Congress and state legislatures should enact restrictions protecting children from violent programming, because violence on TV and in other media has no clear First Amendm Says such programming should...
- Research articles 2000-07-03
- 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 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
- First Amendment end run: Michigan trumps cable's speech rights by convicting a man of indecent exposure on TV; ACLU appeals case.(Top of the Week)
- Timothy Bruce Huffman was convicted of exposing himself on TV. In the first case of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken over his appeal. A three-minute segment of Huffman's Friday-night half-hour show on GRTV, the public ac ...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- 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
- Telco gets green light. (ban on cable TV/telephone crossownership violates Bell Atlantic's First Amendment rights) (Brief Article)
- Bell Atlantic chalked up another court victory last week in its quest to win the right to provide video programing in its own service area. It is the fifth straight legal triumph for regional Bell companies seeking to eliminate the ban...
- Research articles 1994-11-28
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- RTNDF to recognize Katrina coverage.(FAST TRACK)(NewsHour With Jim Lehrer senior correspondent Gwen Ifill wins Len Zeidenberg Award)(Retired NBC News Executive VP Bill Wheatley will receive the First Amendment Service Award)(Brief Article)
- The Radio-Television News Directors Foundation will give its First Amendment Leadership Award to seven TV stations in Louisiana and Mississippi for their public-service efforts to keep residents informed during Hurricane Katrina. The awards also ci The Radio-Television News Directors Foundation will give its First...
- Research articles 2006-02-06
- Playboy decision could protect ads; Ruling puts pressure on government to prove need for speech curbs.
- The Supreme Court's decision overturning a curb on the Playboy TV Network could have a significant impact on other attempts by the government to regulate content and advertising on TV and the Internet. First Amendment and advertising lawyers said l The Supreme Court's decision...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against government-prompted TV ratings and warned journalists of other dangers to their freedoms from court decisions.
- NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against government-prompted TV ratings and warned journalists of other dangers to their freedoms from court decisions last week. In Washington Thursday to accept the First Amendment Leadership Award f NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- Court upholds heart of Cable Act; Time Warner vows to appeal but is pleased that three provisions are found unconstitutional. (Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992)
- Rejecting the cable industry claim to the First Amendment's top rank, a federal judge last Thursday upheld the government's right to regulate cable rates and programing distribution and TV stations' right to demand compensation from cable systems t Rejecting the cable industry claim to...
- Research articles 1993-09-20
- EDITORIALS.
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH ESTATE Words to live by Every broadcaster in America should have been at the Media Institute dinner in Washington last Wednesday when FCC Commissioner Michael Powell delivered what could be...
- Research articles 1999-10-25
- Denver TV news called 'harmful.'
- Basing license renewal decisions on content of newscasts would violate First Amendment, RTNDA Pres. Barbara Cochran said. Cochran said analysis of news content was "highly subjective," but idea that govt. agency would make decisions based on content is "even more dangerous... Fortunately, for many years the FCC has properly and...
- Research articles 1998-02-23
- Whose first amendment? Media conglomeration as free speech.
- WITH THE RISE OF SO-CALLED REALITY TELevision in recent years (proving that truth is tawdrier than fiction, too), it might well be asked what all of the TV writers are up to these days. Some, it would seem, have lent their fertile imaginations to a TV-industry lobbying...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment. - book reviews
- News media, especially television, appear to be assuming an ever larger role in vital affairs of state. For example, the first major international crisis following the cold war saw endless jostling by Washington and Baghdad to score propaganda points during the months leading up to Operation Desert Storm, which led...
- Research articles 1996-09-22
- Seizing Initiative, TWE Aims at TV Station Ban.
- WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by rapid media consolidation in the wake of the deregulatory Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Federal Communications Commission last year declined to use its discretion to accelerate the process by relaxing or eliminating various media-ownership rules. As a...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- EDITORIALS.(Brief Article)(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH ESTATE Less than half a loaf The FCC last week gave some TV broadcasters a break by saying it would entertain the possibility of broadcast/newspaper crossownerships in the same market....
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- The V-chip First Amendment infringement vs. empowerment tool.(Cover Story)
- When President Clinton signed the V-chip into law last Thursday, he put the final touch on a stunning defeat for the television industry. Congress approved the V-chip by an overwhelming margin despite protests from broadcasters, the cable industry, Hollywood producers and Madison Avenue. ...
- Research articles 1996-02-12
- Let's study war some more.(Editorials: Broadcasting & Cable committed to the first amendment)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- NBC often promotes drama Law & Order as "stories ripped from the headlines," then puts a disclaimer at the top of the show emphasizing that all the characters ate fictional and shouldn't be treated as, well, ripped from the headlines. The episode two weeks ago was...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
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