Word: public-interest
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...time a week -- one FCC benchmark for what constitutes a network -- Fox has managed to avoid the commission restrictions on program ownership and syndication that govern the Big Three. This annoys the other networks, which argue that Fox receives an unfair competitive advantage from Washington while it escapes such public-interest obligations as maintaining a news division...
Common Cause today led a charge by public-interest groups to lay the blame for the failure of the finance-reform bill squarely on President Clinton and the Democrats, whom they accused of fatal legislative dithering...
...reform opened up fresh avenues of opportunity. New limits on political contributions from individuals led to the rise of political-action committees, which flooded Congress with money on behalf of organized special interests. "The system itself has become a form of legalized corruption," complains Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobbying group Common Cause...
...games, exchanging mail and entertaining themselves on the computer networks. Although a switched, broadband network could serve both computer users and television viewers, cable-TV operators in particular seem reluctant to allow computer owners to plug in. The cable operators, contends Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest group involved in electronic communications issues, "have a couch-potato vision of the future...
...shown a similar get-the-job-done talent on many corporate and public-interest boards and other assignments. Her former law-firm partner William Kennedy remembers that she could wade into a complex case at the eleventh hour "and respond in a heartbeat...