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Readers with a beef against their local newspaper usually have little recourse other than writing an angry letter to the editor. But people with complaints about their local TV or radio station have a powerful ally in their corner: the Federal Government. Every broadcast station in the country must abide by the fairness doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that requires broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial public issues. A station that runs an editorial opposing nuclear power, for instance, must give the pronuclear side a chance to express its views. If the station fails...
...Broadcasters, along with some First Amendment scholars, have long objected to these rules, pointing out that newspapers are bound by no such restrictions. "The notion that fairness is something that can be determined by a group of Government-appointed bureaucrats is offensive to any good journalist," says former CBS News President Richard Salant. The Supreme Court upheld the fairness doctrine in 1969, citing the scarcity of broadcast outlets and the need to enhance the expression of diverse opinions, but opponents argue that the situation has changed since then. With some 12,000 radio stations, 1,110 TV stations...
...University of Michigan, a student slipped a pamphlet proclaiming "open-season" on "porch monkees and jigaboos" under the door of a Black students meeting. In addition, a campus disc jockey on a school radio station caused an uproar after he broadcast racist jokes...
...press is the middleman. It is in effect the professor for the public," Kalb says, adding, "policy is the result of the policy maker and the public." But Kalb says that recent developments in the press have unsettled his faith in broadcast journalism. "Network news has undergone profound changes. I worry about the trend toward increasing shallowness, pretension and egomaniacal compulsion," he says. "We must stick to old-fashioned values...
...however, another $20 million to $25 million within 90 days is being solicited by Falwell, who claims PTL requires that amount to consolidate its loans and pay 40 TV stations to which it owes $8 million. Survival depends on keeping the daily PTL show on its broadcast and cable systems so that money will continue to roll in. Belt tightening and staff cuts (including the Bakkers' $45,000-a-year housekeeper) have dropped the monthly operating deficit from $2 million...