Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry has been named to head a new Communications and Technology Subcommittee of Senate Commerce Committee by Commerce Committee Chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller.
Broadcasting & Cable News notes that Kerry “would likely not be the media’s top pick for oversight of their industry.”
“There’s a huge agenda on our plates, from the digital television transition, expanding access [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Via Politico, Senator Tom Harkin discussing the “Fairness Doctrine” with Bill Press:
The conservatives are not at all in favor of this. I am. I believe we need to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine.”
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Hart Williams
I coined the phrase “Hate Radio.”
I know this because I searched all the search engines when I started “Stop Hate Radio” in 2001. There was a single reference in a few places: in the mid-1990s a group of minority students in Florida used the term in protesting a Florida sports radio station whose host used [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2007 by Hart Williams
“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
-From King Richard III (I, i, 1)
Last week, big chunks of America were caught up in two enormous soap operas. The first was Ken Burns’ documentary, “The War,” that was pulling in network-type ratings. It reminded us of World War II, which I, as a child of the [...]
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