Word: fcc
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...FCC finds that a station is not operating in the public interest, it can revoke its license or refuse renewal. The FCC does not license networks, but since each network owns at least five TV stations, the commission can exercise considerable influence over them...
...report certainly will not end the debate about the effects of TV violence. FCC Chairman Kenneth Cox cautions against a "bland approach" that would cut violence out of television altogether, saying there are many Washington officials who feel that if war, for example, "is such a terrible thing, maybe people should see more of it. Maybe they would know then what it really means." FCC Commissioner Robert E. Lee doubts that a cause-and-effect relationship can be scientifically established. "I kind of doubt the experts will find a connection," he says, though "once in a while you may find...
...dictating a story over ship-to-shore radio from the mammoth ice-breaking tanker S.S. Manhattan on its voyage through the Northwest Passage to Alaska. It must have been a salty yarn, too, because a monitoring station in Iowa picked up some unprintable language-which, of course, is against FCC regulations. Upshot of it all: the Humble Oil & Refining Co., the ship's owner, banned all voice transmissions, not only for Mrs. Bentley but for every reporter on the trip. "I just used a common Anglo-Saxon expletive," she was quoted as saying, "to express my impatience with...
...petitions, and 21 Congressmen have drafted bills to ban subscription TV. So far, the proposed legislation has not stirred much interest on Capitol Hill. NATO's other resort is a suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit contesting the authority of any FCC licensing...
Less publicized but more significant were the Anderson investigative skills that put punch in columns on such figures as the "Five Percenters" of the Truman Administration, the "Kickback Congressmen" of the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, FCC Commissioner Richard Mack and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was also Anderson who persuaded office workers for Senator Thomas Dodd to turn over the Connecticut Democrat's incriminating files. Of the more than 100 Pearson-Anderson columns devoted to the Dodd affair, all but two were written by the junior partner...