Word: fcc
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Instead, Howard received from NBC on Feb. 27 a 39-page rebuttal of the A.M.A. allegations. Two months later, the A.M.A. countered the counterattack and formally asked the FCC to investigate what it termed the "distortion and slanting of news" in the NBC documentary. For its counsel, the A.M.A. hired former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who once condemned commercial network programming as a "vast wasteland." The A.M.A. also discussed the case with the new National News Council, an independent body established to adjudicate complaints against news organizations...
will not pursue its proceedings before the FCC...
...telephone conversation without using a beeper to warn the unsuspecting party at the other end is a violation of Federal Communications Commission tariff regulations. The penalty normally is a warning from the telephone company to stop any secret taping or risk the loss of its telephone service. The FCC ordered AT&T to check into the Nixon telephone-taping practice. An official...
...plan to give time to the Democrats for rebuttals to Nixon speeches was challenged by Republicans and ruled unfair by the Federal Communications Commission. CBS waged a successful court fight against the FCC ruling, but by then the "equal time" provisions in force for the 1972 presidential campaign made the plan impractical until after the election...
...intention to use the bug as an anticrime weapon. Former Attorney General John Mitchell justified this policy by saying: "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity has nothing to fear whatsoever." That would have been scant reassurance for the Congressmen, journalists, FCC employees, campus radicals, black nationalists-and even White House aides-who have been subject to Government wiretaps. Most had engaged in no illegal activity...