Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fights & Foes. Fly's most immediate fight is in Congress against the Sanders Bill, which proposes sweeping changes in the communications act, one of which would split FCC into two divisions and strip the chairman of much of his authority. His major opponents are CBS and NBC, which consider Fly prejudiced and think he wants to reform them out of business; the National Association of Broadcasters, which Fly has delighted to compare to John Randolph's dead mackerel in the moonlight ("It shines and stinks"), and newspaper owners, whom Fly is frankly trying to keep...
That Larry Fly has opposition even in his own camp was shown when Commissioner T. A. M. Craven followed him as a witness before the House committee. Craven praised the radio networks, expressed the view that newspapers should be allowed to operate stations, and described FCC's present plan of organization as "basically unsound...
...FCC's Fly made a carefully noncommittal reference to the Smith article last week...
When the U.S. went to war it became urgent to keep all Axis propaganda and communication off the air. For the half dozen busy Government agencies-FCC, OFF, FBI, Office of Censorship, Army & Navy Intelligence-which cupped ears to the country's own linguistic babel, the question was: what were these U.S. foreign-language stations telling or hinting to their listeners...
...FCC did not take the easy way out and crack down on them. It did not do so for good and sufficient reasons. The commission knew that these broadcasters were a potent means of reaching 14,000,000 foreign-born and first-generation Americans, people who might otherwise dial in short-wave programs from Europe in the languages they like to hear. FCC did not have to wait long before it got help from the stations themselves...