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The show off the air - isn’t that fine enough?

November 24th, 2004 · Comments Off

Radio-General

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FCC that!

November 20th, 2004 · Comments Off

Television-General

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FOX News’ northward expansion

November 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

Television-Cable News

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Since changing the channel might be too difficult…

November 17th, 2004 · Comments Off

Television-General

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Faulty wiring

November 14th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Television-General

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I’ll Second That Emotion

June 7th, 2004 · Comments Off

News.com’s Declan McCullagh proclaims the reasons “why the FCC should die” in an article this morning.
Highlight for me: “If the FCC had been in charge of overseeing the Internet, we’d likely be waiting for the Mosaic Web browser to receive preliminary approval from the Wireline Competition Bureau.” Now that’s quality.
McCullagh presents some very […]

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Does FCC Action Hinder Creativity?

May 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

MediaChannel.org has an article by Peggy Charren and Jonathan Rintels, two individuals involved in creating programming, including shows for children. Their concern lies with how the FCC has put networks in such a bind with their seemingly random decisions on what is “decent” and what isn’t. While I’m not sure that using the […]

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Does The FCC Need a Dirt Nap?

May 8th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Jim Beanan at Radical Cowboys shares some thoughts about ditching out on the FCC and letting networks and the American people decide for themselves what is reasonable and decent or not.
Do you think that companies and people would be able to do a better job than the FCC is doing overall? If […]

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Oprah & Stern - More Details

May 5th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Thanks to The Defamer for posting some fun little tidbits about the ability for Oprah Winfrey to flat out discuss something in detail after detail - while Howard Stern says two words that are fairly innocuous if you don’t know the context - and he gets hit with the fine. All the while, they’re […]

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Making a Difference

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off

Earlier today, I received a message from the group putting together StopFCC.com, and it let me know that you can now just as easily as you can put in your zip code and some basic information, you can send a fax or email to your state’s U.S. Senator.
While I think to say the FCC has […]

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