Word: fcc
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Although the FCC requires CB licenses ($20 per set) and call numbers, few truckers bother with such details...
...access to television become that most people take it for granted. But in Presidential Television, a Twentieth Century Fund Report published last week (Basic Books; $8.95), three authors argue that the tube has seriously tipped constitutional checks and balances in favor of the Executive Branch. Written by Newton Minow, FCC chairman in the Kennedy Administration, John Bartlow Martin, an author and a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Lee Mitchell, an attorney specializing in communications law, Presidential Television urges a thorough reform of broadcasting regulations before the President's "electronic throne" becomes all too real...
Legislators and opposition leaders frequently do show up on television. But these appearances are almost never carried simultaneously on all networks. Instead, opponents of presidential policies usually are squirreled away in film clips on news shows or sternly interrogated by reporters on Sunday interview programs. The FCC has consistently ruled that "fairness" is achieved when television merely gives exposure to opposition viewpoints; the authors contend that the networks must do more. They must give spokesmen opposed to the President comparable time and an equal chance at a nationwide audience...
...Perry Mason show been castrated? The quality of television declines every year. The "vast wasteland" former FCC chairman Newton Minow described in 1961 has by now been sown with salt. In 1962, The Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
Because he was Evers' press secretary, Berry is able to present an indepth account of southern political reporting. He notes that because of FCC regulations, television reporting is surprisingly fair. However, the newspapers which are often owned by one family rarely give black candidates an equitable amount of exposure. In Jackson, the capital city, the Hederman family owns the two daily newspapers and carried on an active campaign in its columns for one of the white candidates. Its reporters slurred Evers repeatedly during the campaign, accusing him of having Communist affiliations because he supported a strike by black and white...