Word: fcc
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Since the Federal Communications Commission was set up to look after the public interest as affected by the broadcasting business, how could all those rivers of payola flood the land without provoking so much as a "tut, tut" from the commissioners? Scoring the FCC (and the Federal Trade Commission as well), the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond wrote: "They were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evidence that they thought they had much to do about...
...radio and TV stations, FCC sent a demand for complete "verified statements" reporting payola, schlockmeistering. bribes, undercover plugs and similar activities that have gone on during the past 13 months. The commission had found its authority in a section of the Communications Act of 1934, which requires that stations name on the air all people who in any manner pay to have material broadcast. The FCC poll will probably not reflect anything like the amount of bread that has actually changed hands, since many breadwinners can be expected to deny that they have ever been on the take...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
Governor Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey visited Cambridge yesterday with his pretty wife and a prepared speech. Addressing the Harvard Democratic Leadership Forum, he struck at the large measure of abdication of regulatory authority by the so-called big six Federal commissions--FTC, FCC, FPC, FAA, SEC, and ICC. The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission were singled out for particular opprobrium because of the current television quiz show scandals...
...programing. "The concept," said Kintner last week, "is not workable for [television] any more than [for] the newspaper industry or the magazine industry." Kintner did not add the most plausible argument against the idea: the hard-lobbying broadcasters might hamstring a TV commissioner as easily as they have the FCC...