Word: fcc
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About Face. Burger not only specifically ordered WLBT's license "vacated forthwith" but generally scolded the FCC for showing a prejudice in favor of established broadcasters and "profound hostility" to public-interest groups contesting license renewals. "Broadcasters," ruled Burger, "are temporary permittees - fiduciaries - of a great public resource, and they must meet the highest standards which are embraced in the public-interest concept...
...station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook's request for a chance to reply was refused, he took his case to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC ordered the station to give Cook a turn at the mike, went on to point out that under its "fairness doctrine," broadcasters must 1) offer free time to people personally attacked on the air on a controversial issue of public importance, and 2) in cases where stations editorially endorse...
...most proud of affirmed those very citizen rights that Westin noted. When the Federal Communications Commission turned down a complaint by a group of blacks against a Mississippi radio station that they charged was racist, Burger, speaking for his court, affirmed the citizens' rights to challenge the FCC's renewal of a license. His decision, says an admiring lawyer, brought the public into an area that was until then the exclusive preserve of Government and industry...
Tobacco men who are pained by such advertisements can blame one man. He is John F. Banzhaf III, the 28-year-old lawyer who, almost singlehanded, is responsible for all the free air time given to the antismoking messages. It was Banzhafs "citizen's complaint" to the FCC about cigarette ads that prompted the commission to dust off the fairness doctrine. Banzhaf had almost idly come across that "little loophole," as he calls it, while working at a Manhattan law firm. He was astonished at the response from the FCC, which ordered broadcasters to make room for antismoking...
...They can simply do nothing. If the labeling law's pre-emptive clause expires, the FCC and the FTC would be free to take almost any action they wish. This possibility particularly excites the critics of cigarettes. No cigarette bills of any kind are pending in the Senate, where sentiment against smoking is even stronger than in the House. Washington's Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Utah's Frank Moss, head of the subcommittee on consumer affairs, promise that no bills will appear...