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BY AND LARGE, last Thursday's McGovern Commission hearings in Boston were a New Politics show. Innumerable representatives of various organizations of former McCarthy and Kennedy supporters gathered before the Democratic Party commission to propose what they felt were changes in the operation of the party and of the American...
Fundamental disagreement occurs on the issue of what erotica does to the consumer. Critics of the new permissiveness assume as obvious that it is damaging to people, particularly the young, and that it leads to sexual license. But in the age of the in-depth survey and the microscopic sexual...
Lately the status quo has been increasingly challenged by the courts, by citizens' groups such as the N.C.C.B. and at times even by the vacillating Fed eral Communications Commission. In one of his final decisions as an appeals court judge, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger set forth a new...
The issue of media control is much fogged over and highly debatable. In a different category are the cases, like the one Burger ruled on, where licenses are questioned for bias or inadequate ser vices to the community. Last month the commission canceled its recent li cense renewal for Manhattan...
Parker denounces the FCC as "the lap dog of the broadcasting industry." The commission, however, is caught between the courts and the Congress. There is strong support for Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore's Senate bill to force the commission to grant licenses in near perpetuity. The measure would...