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...Mark Fowler wants to strip away TV regulations...
...roll station in Gainesville, Fla., during the late '60s, 'Madman Mark," as he was then known, chafed at the public service programs he was required to air. So he buried them in the doldrums of the early morning hours. Fifteen years later, balding, bespectacled Mark Fowler still does not much care for public service programming. But now, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he can do something about it. Indeed, Fowler's goal is to free broadcasters from nearly all of the thousands of FCC rules, policies and doctrines requiring that "the public interest be served...
...Fowler, the business of broadcasters is business. "Let the marketplace decide," is his anthem; "bigness is not necessarily badness," the chorus. He fervently believes that if broadcasters were allowed to battle it out, free of regulation, the result would be "more innovation, more choice, better quality and lower prices." In his Utopia, the audience would regulate programming by switching channels. "Let the public's interest determine the public interest," Fowler is fond of declaring...
...meager one-hour-a-week TV watcher, Fowler, 42, came by his libertarian philosophy gradually. The son of a Toronto tobacco wholesaler, he moved to the U.S. at ten and later went to college and law school at the University of Florida. During those years, he supported himself as a disc jockey and program director for small-market radio stations. In 1968 he traveled to Indiana to work on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Later, moving to Washington to join the city's busy network of communications lawyers, he came to the conclusion that the complex FCC rules...
...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...