All Posts Tagged With: "FCC"
A Manifesto for Media Freedom
Americans are blessed with access to an unprecedented variety of media–not to mention ways in which information can be stored and the points of view and ownership interests represented. As documented in the brisk book A Manifesto for Media Freedom, this cornucopia of media options has led not to celebration of the marvelous diversity that [...]
23Sep2009 | Brian Doherty | 0 comments | ContinuedOne Size Fits Some
The nonhuman part of the world makes sense. I expect no less of the human part. So let’s explore the following true-life experience: You’re sitting in an airliner that has just landed and is taxiing to the gate. The flight attendant comes on the public-address system to say, “Welcome to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Please [...]
1Nov2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhose Airwaves Are They?
The heat is being turned up on radio stations for broadcasting indecent material. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Clear Channel Communications nearly half a million dollars for broadcasting several minutes of lewd remarks by radio star Howard Stern back in April. Clear Channel has since stopped carrying the program on its six stations. [...]
1Jul2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTelecom Regulations Don’t Create Competitive Markets
The author would like to thank Diane Katz, director of science, environment, and technology policy at the Mackinac Center, for her assistance in the preparation of this column. Few of us would understand the jargon employed in a recent ruling overturning telecommunications regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But it’s not necessary to [...]
1May2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedFrankenstein Television
The televisions that Americans have loved for over 50 years will soon become obsolete. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that the analog TV broadcast signals be turned off in 2006. After that date all TV broadcasts will be “digital.” This mandate appears to be at odds with the wishes of the American people. [...]
1Feb2003 | Michael Heberling | 6 comments | ContinuedRegulatory Extortion
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. This article is based on a presentation prepared for the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” last September in Toronto. In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, offered an extraordinarily gloomy [...]
1Mar2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 5 comments | ContinuedLaw and Disorder in Cyberspace
Solveig Singleton is director of information studies at the Cato Institute. The subtitle of Peter Huber’s Law and Disorder in Cyberspace proudly proclaims the book’s main theme: “Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm.” Huber proposes a free-market revolution for telephone, broadcasting, cable television, satellite, and Internet services, tempered with a few [...]
1Oct1998 | Solveig Singleton | 1 comment | ContinuedFree-Market Economics in a Phone Booth
Dr. Shannon is professor of economics at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. In The Wealth of Nations, published 220 years ago, Adam Smith argued that the interests of consumers would be better served by an open system of free markets than by the regulated regime of mercantilism that prevailed. Competition, Smith maintained, was more efficient [...]
1Dec1996 | Russell Shannon | 0 comments | ContinuedIs the Public Served by the Public Interest Standard?
Mr. Thierer is the Alex C. Walker Fellow in Economic Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The so-called “public interest standard” has governed communications policy decision-making at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for more than 70 years. It is time to question whether this “standard” does indeed serve the public, or if it has instead served [...]
1Sep1996 | Adam D. Thierer | 2 comments | Continued-
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