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...Norris has been waiting for action on his TV application because the FCC is trying to deal with charges that a Norris-owned radio station violated the so-called "fairness doctrine." Norris' complaint is that his case has been pending since 1965-though that is not very long in terms of the FCC's decision-making process. After all, the agency has yet to settle a dispute over a certain frequency allotment claimed by Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee recently requested...
Thus it is unsurprising that the poky ways of the FCC tend to bring out not only the prayers but the Don Rickles in most people. Michigan's Democratic Congressman John Dingell said last week that the FCC people "are in such a horrible quagmire of past failures that they can't face any of the problems before them." Newton Minow, the FCC's critical and scholarly ex-chairman, recalls that it was all "a quixotic world of undefined terms, private pressures and tools unsuited to the work." Some of the incumbent commissioners throw up their hands...
...news show) must give comparable exposure to his opponents. In the most publicized of what will undoubtedly be many legal tests during the current campaign, Senator Eugene McCarthy claimed equal time after Lyndon Johnson's December "Conversation with the President," which ran on all three networks. The FCC denied the request, declaring that the President was not an avowed candidate at the time. McCarthy then took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and lost...
Another provision of the fairness rule -obligating stations to offer reply time to victims of "personal attack"-is now also being challenged in the courts by the networks on the ground that the procedure inhibits free speech. Last week, in a typical retreat, the FCC asked that the decision be held off while it considered modification of the rule. Just as typically, the House Investigations Subcommittee plans to move in with two days of hearings on the whole subject this week...
POPSI Project. With some reason, the FCC can answer its critics with the defense that its jurisdiction-the entire publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum-is just unmanageable on a $19 million pittance of a budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications...