Word: fcc
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...cars and gas did not offer comparable hazards to those of the ads for cigarettes. "The distinction," said the court, "is not apparent to us, any more than we suppose it is to the asthmatic in New York City, for whom increasing air pollution is a mortal danger." The FCC must now reconsider...
...Crocodile tears for Walter Cronkite [May 31]. If the networks had their way, the only function of the FCC would be to ensure that the three network giants had no major competition. Does Cronkite believe that Agnew & Co. are responsible for his sinking credibility, when Cronkite has held his office longer than Nixon, Agnew and Johnson put together...
...raging between the Federal Government and American radio stations. In March, after a 5-to-l vote, the Federal Communications Commissioners pointedly reminded stations that broadcasting songs "promoting" or "glorifying" the use of drugs could endanger station licenses. The lone dissenter was Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who regarded the FCC warning not only as ambiguous and difficult to enforce but as a clear step toward censorship. In a series of four-minute tapes distributed free to radio stations, Johnson has played some of the songs his fellow commissioners may have had in mind, and personally analyzed the lyrics, drawing conclusions highly...
Whether the FCC warning and its implications are unconstitutional will, indeed, have to be decided in the courts. Johnson, however, though somewhat wordily, has made a basic point. Any Government body that wants to control lyrics that promote or glorify drugs will have to establish-and make stick-sensible standards for deciding just what does or does not constitute promotion...
...former Detroit-based journalist now on the administrative staff of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, illustrating the political manipulation of news during the Detroit riots: and the text of a speech, "Subpoenas, Outtakes and Freedom of the Press," by Nicholas Johnson, an outspoken commissioner of the FCC, on the relationship between the national media and the government and its adverse affects of "the people's right to know...