Word: punishments
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...issues and can revoke the licenses of all broadcasters. It can bring pressure against a station that does not grant equal time to political candidates. Under its "fairness doctrine," it tries generally to make sure that a station's programs provide a "broad spectrum of views." It can punish with fines or get a "cease and desist" order if a station does not comply with the specific rules...
...practice, the FCC rarely uses its licensing power to punish; renewals these days, as California Congressman John Moss recently pointed out, "are nearly as perfunctory as library-card renewals." And two weeks ago, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dealt a heavy setback to two important requirements dictated by the fairness doctrine. One of those requirements provided that any station broadcasting a "personal attack" on someone in an editorial or news documentary must notify that person and offer him time to reply. The other held that any station endorsing or opposing a political candidate must allow the other...
...never punish [St. Paul] enough for making Christianity impolite, for saddling it with the nastiest traditions of the Old Testament: intolerance, brutality, provincialism. He was the first barker of the Greco-Roman world. Whenever I am at a loss for a scapegoat, I open the Epistles and am quickly reassured. I have my man, and he rouses me to a fury...
Something is seriously wrong with the way power is allocated within the American university. The recent disruptions at Columbia and elsewhere have dramatized this problem--Congress will not now solve it by trying to punish the students who have raised...
...proposed measure is all the more inane for its discriminatory quality: it can affect only those students who are unable to pay for their own education, and will leave the rest untouched. Unable to punish the rich students involved in campus disruptions, Congress has apparently decided to crush the poor ones...