Broadcast low on FCC oversight totem pole
Broadband and wireless issues where the top of mind items at the Communications Subcommittee meet-up with the five FCC Commissioners Thursday. However, Chairman Julius...
Shield teed up today in Senate Judiciary
S. 448, Free Flow of Information Act of 2009, attributed by the Senate Judiciary Committee to Arlen Specter (D-PA), Schumer (D-NY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC),...
House debut for three from FCC
Three of the five FCC Commissioners have yet to get a good grilling from the members of the House of Representatives, but that will...
House panel reads out SHVURA bill
The reauthorization of SHVURA is on its way for consideration by the full House of Representatives with the Judiciary Committee stamp of approval. A rollcall vote produced a unanimous result, although
FCC petitions to revisit Janet Jackson fine
The FCC believes that if it can go after fleeting expletives, punishing and fining the guilty, than it should be able to do the same when fleeting images go beyond
NAB joins Pearl in promoting world peace
The entire month of October this year will mark the eighth go-around for the Daniel Pearl Foundation’s Daniel Pearl World Music Days, a series...
E&C books FCC
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has made it official: Thursday is meet the Commissioners day. Presumably, anyway – that is the day...
Newspaper renews call for federal shield
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that President George W. Bush was against a federal shield for reporters, but both Barack Obama and John McCain said on the campaign trail that they were for it
FTC to alert media on stimulus scams
Hard times often make it easier for scam artists to prey on those down on their luck, and we’re undergoing a period of hard...
Genachowski kicks off vlog
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski isn’t kidding when he says the FCC is going to be a true 21st Century agency. In fact, me underscored...
FCC sets agenda for September meeting
It looks like the format for the September Open Meeting at theFCC is going to be all broadband, all the time. At least for...
SCOTUS hears about Hillary
Actually, “Hillary Clinton: The Movie” was a starting point, but yesterday’s arguments at the Supreme Court had much more to do with how corporations may speak and spend their money and how elections
Nostalgia time at subcommittee
Congress is back, and Thursday’s schedule has the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet back in action. The hearing, “Oversight of the...
FCC’s Q1 2009 gripes of wrath
There was a spike in indecency complaints in March 2009, ending a three quarter streak of peace and quiet on that front. The direct...
SCOTUS embarking on campaign finance
A narrow dispute over advertising a documentary about Hillary Clinton has mushroomed into a broad attack on restrictions on corporate and union campaign advertising that have been