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...entanglement between McCain's office and Alcalde's firm went further. In December 1999, FCC chairman William Kennard chastised McCain for writing a letter encouraging the resolution to a licensing matter involving Paxson Communications. The letter was written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists...
...think the hardest part has been the lack of communication between the colleges,” Yale junior Matthew E. Kennard says. “Trying to plan around the regulations that have been put out is a challenge that both Harvard and Yale students share...
...Stanford panelist William Kennard, a former chairperson of the Federal Communication Commission, encouraged students to critically examine media representation of minorities...
...William Kennard is ticked off. In a scathing op-ed showcased in Tuesday's New York Times, the Federal Communications Commission chair rails against Fox and NBC's decision not to broadcast the first presidential debates. While CBS and ABC will show the 90-minute Bush-Gore slugfest in all its (potentially tedious) glory, the naughtier networks have bowed to the allure of ratings, offering a premiere of James Cameron's slinky "Dark Angel" and the debut game of the baseball playoffs...
...Kennard argues that all the networks have a responsibility to televise the debates; he even characterizes the broadcasts as a repayment of debt. And he's right: If not for the beneficence of government (and the networks' skillful lobbying efforts), NBC and Fox might exist in a drastically reduced capacity - or perhaps not at all. The major networks control airwaves that are, ostensibly, public domain. And, as Kennard sees it, that federal largesse demands an effort to give something back (i.e., the debates) every four years...