Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from prosperous. KPFA ("Your listener-nonsupported station") hopes to raise $75,000 in a "May Day" fund drive. KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...
...FCC has its way, the new label will...
Both the FTC and the FCC also urge that this warning be appended to all cigarette advertisements and commercials. This week Joseph L. Cullman III, chairman of Philip Morris Inc., will testify for the nine companies that make U.S. cigarettes. He plans to say that, should the mandatory warnings be extended to all ads, the industry will abandon advertising entirely...
...parents not to smoke. Teenagers and children have been strongly influenced by the American Cancer Society and other private health groups, which send touring displays to schools, showing how lungs are affected by smoking. Most of all, young people have responded to the persuasive antismoking television commercials, which the FCC has ordered all stations to carry. "People used to call their cigarettes 'cancer sticks,' but they never really believed it before," says Dr. Charles Dale, a Chicago pathologist. "Now their kids are bugging them, so they can't even smoke in peace any more...
...most of its momentum, the crusade against cigarettes is indebted to a regulatory windfall: the antismoking ads that are broadcast free on TV and radio under the FCC's "fairness doctrine." The ten-year-old doctrine, designed to ensure airing of opposing views on controversial issues, had never been applied to the advertising of a product until 1967. Then the FCC ruled that broadcasters must devote "significant" time to antismoking messages, meaning one of them for every three cigarette commercials...